Eddie Taylor
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I can believe it happened. Could have been on an 8-foot table with roomy pockets. He knew a lot about banking. It was a pleasure to meet him at the BCA Trade Show. And informative.
its believable to me as most players stop at a certain point and dont keep going. thats why so few high runs from the past as the games ended at 125 or 150 points and so the run stopped.
its also why even though he may not have been the top mine ball player runner in the world, no one ever wanted to play him when we played pushout as he would push out to a bank that his opponent could not make or play a good safe off of, that was a hanger for him.
and when i knew him he was around 45 years old.
its also why even though he may not have been the top mine ball player runner in the world, no one ever wanted to play him when we played pushout as he would push out to a bank that his opponent could not make or play a good safe off of, that was a hanger for him.
and when i knew him he was around 45 years old.
My wife’s great grandfather, Joe Medvidovich, was a pool player and pool room owner in North Carolina who used to run around with Luther Lassiter. He was nicknamed 3 finger Joe due to a work accident that cost him 2 fingers on his right hand. My wife’s grandpa, who is 85, told me that when he was around age 10, a player came into his father’s pool room and challenged him. It was Eddie Taylor. He said Eddie and his dad played non-stop for two days, nineball I assume, and three finger Joe came out ahead at the end. Unfortunately, at age 10, he hadn’t yet been bitten by the pool bug, and was bored out of his mind the whole time. An avid pool player himself, he’s spent the last 60 years kicking himself that he didn’t appreciate what he was witnessing, lol.
That's why when we talked at the trade show, I said what I said.
4 racks of 9 ='s 36 + one more.
To me that made sense.
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Just to be clear, that's not what he claims he did. In the video, he explained that he was playing a guy for $2 for each bank, so every ball would be cleared every rack. They were playing full rack. He ran 12 to finish one rack, then all 15 the next rack, and then 10 in the third rack, for 37 total without a miss.
(He made a ball on each smash break in that run. If you clear the table from the break, what you made on the break spots up and you get to try to bank it.)
100% - all that happened
Thx bob.... in all his yrs of play I'm not surprised.
Some just prefer not to.
Like Shaw running his 14.1 record.
Come on Jason, you can do better than that.
Some just prefer to be Maga/Mad....
Some just prefer to be Maga/Mad....
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It's clear not too many have ever seen a game of full rack
I saw Taylor and Cannonball bank balls cross side so hard they actually went into the pocket on the fly! Hello@jay helfert told me that Eddie Taylor banked his object ball over the corner of another ball, and into the pocket. In other words, he caused his object ball to bank/jump.
He (Jay) also stated that Taylor once took all the balls out of the pockets, tossed them on the table, and then proceeded to bank the entire pack.
In an interview (it’s online) Taylor said he only did that a few times in his life. I witnessed one of them.
Thnx Bob. You are correct.
It must have been a very cool experience to have seen him play...
Still the best Bank Pool player I ever saw, bar none! He zinged ‘em in there, even long rail banks at 100 mph! So powerful with so much confidence. If he jarred one (everything hit the pocket!) he would just shake his head and sit down, like he couldn’t understand how that ball hung. It was clear he never expected to miss anything.
More on Three-Finger Joe: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-23-sp-303-story.html