Well you ruined my hope I had some ultra rare hard to find unique vintage collectors item LOL
For the quality of the book, it seems not to have sold well -- maybe bad marketing. Earl Strickland on the back cover. There is a photo of Red's Recovery Room in there. I beat the owner's nephew for some money. The owner was wearing a fur coat. It was a strange experience.
Also pictures of:
Earl on the back cover
Chalker's in San Francisco p10-p15
Fran Crimi p16-17
Ray Martin p18-20
Steve Mizerak p22-23
Jean Balukas p24-27
Earl p28-29
Ron Blatt p30-31
Ernie Gutierrez 32-33
Women pros 34-53 (Fisher wins the event)
Places -- Julian's, Hardtimes (Bellflower), Jillian's (Long Beach), Hollywood Athletic Club, Gotham Hall (Santa Monica), Hollywood Billiards (San Francisco), The Blue Fin (Monterey) featuring Tony Annigoni, Monterey Billiards, Red's Recovery Room and two other rooms in Sonoma County, Gold Rush Billiards (Santa Rosa), New Wave Billiards (Miami), Pete Rose's room in Boca Raton, Franklin's Sporting Goods (Aliquippa, PA), the Duquesne Club (Pittsburgh), the NYAC, 4X4 Billiards (Flushing), SL Billiards (Queens), Old Princeton Landing (Half Moon Bay, CA), The Jointed Cue (Sacramento) showing tournament charts which are still there from 1978/1979, Shootz Cafe and Breakers (Pittsburgh), South HIlls Golden Cue (Bridgeville, PA) ft. Jimmy Marino, Chelsea, Mammoth, Amsterdam, and Le Q (Manhattan).
Male pros, p92-113 (Davenport 1st, Sans Souci 2nd, at a Sands Regency event in 1997) Lots of pictures of the pros breaking and going completely into the air and lots of break sticks bent into the table.
Lots of pictures from the BCA Trade Show of that year including a wedding in the Brunswick booth (Jimmy Caras was an usher), a wheelchair tournament, people playing five-pin billiards (finals of a pro tournament), Sammy Jones doing jump shots, and Paul Huebler writing up an order. (There was a lot more to see at trade shows back then, before the innerwebz.)
A glossary at the end.
In case someone wants a collectible copy, I have one inscribed to Pierre Morin (a Canadian pool author) in French by Mike Shamos.
