Great players who worked.

Shame on you guys from Texas...:p

The other guy not mentioned is Tommy Sanders, who was in auto sales. Legend has it he was a ball or 2 under world speed. Plus, no touring pool player could get there on the golf course with him either.
 
tom mcgonagle said:
Is blowing your own horn acceptable?

I worked for 39 years for, at first, New England Telephone and at the end Verizon.

I managed to win the New England Championship three consecutive years, 1986-1988. After losing my first match, I won twenty seven consecutive matches spanning over four years. Kerry Herbert out of Maine, stopped my streak.

The highlight, of it all, was my second year. I won seven matches in a row. A total of 63 games. My opponents won only 19 games. That's better than an average win of 9-3. One of my opponents actually won seven games. The rest of it was a 54-12 margin.

I also finished 3rd and 4th in consecutive years in the, Eastern States Nine-ball Championships. My personal highlight included an 11-10 victory over Ray Martin in 1982. We were playing for third and forth place.

If you visit my web site you'll also see some of the other players I've played against. I even managed to beat some of them.

I also won the, Senior BCAPL Eight-ball Championship in 2010.

The biggest accomplishment of my life is staying married for 32 years and raising two great boys.


I don't claim to be the best ever, working pool player, but I got to be right up there.
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Wow, 32 years of marriage. That is an amazing number for a pool player. I didn't get anywhere near that number, and that's counting all six tries. When it came to marriage, I always thought I was ordering off the main menue, but somehow I kept getting the sampler platter by mistake.
 
M House

Here's the crazy part of the story.

I was married before and we divorced. I didn't play pool while I was married to my first wife. I played a lot of three cushion at that time of my life. Maybe that's why I bounced around.
 
Stefano Pelinga recently retired from a 27 year career as an Italian Police Officer.
 
Can't believe no ones mentioned Mr. John Henderson from CA. He's in his 70's and worked his whole life and just finished high in the US Open Onepocket championship. Rep to all working players!!!

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Stefano Pelinga recently retired from a 27 year career as an Italian Police Officer.

I never knew that....quite impressive. I'll add "Spanish" Mike Lebron, 1988 winner of the U.S Open.
 
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From toys to riches ...

Tom Cruise worked in a toy store until Paul Newman stoppped by. Now Tom goes by the name "Vince" and is on the road with Carmen looking for his next game.
 
While this guy may not meet the definition of greatness to some,in my book he does.

His name is Eddie Adams,from somewhere around Bowling Green,Ky. I think he was an electrician or some other kind of skilled tradesman.

In over 30 times watching the man play purely in tournaments from 25.00 entry to the U.S. Open,the only one I've ever seen him NOT win was the Open in 2000,and he finished 7-8 out of 302 that year,beating Luat amongst others. His best game is close to Luat's DAILY speed. Tommy D.
 
According to Surfer Rod Curry's website he worked most of his life but I think it was after he was done with pool.
 
No one mentioned Corey Harper either but he held a full time job, still going to college and now is also running his own business.
 
Here's another contender to the title:

Arthur "Babe" Cranfield- Went to Cornell university, served in the military, 40 year career as vice president of sales for Muzak Corp and... won numerous titles including a 14.1 world championship.


Eric
 
JB Cases said:
No one mentioned Corey Harper either but he held a full time job, still going to college and now is also running his own business.
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That guy has been playing the colidge card for a decade!
which is about 4yr less than my sentence was:embarrassed2:
 
What would be and even more difficult task, what great player has kept their marriage together during their pool career? Rempe is one of the few also, I heard that Buddy Hall remarried the same gal after their first divorce, 17 yr gap comes to mind.
 
Island Drive said:
What would be and even more difficult task, what great player has kept their marriage together during their pool career? Rempe is one of the few also, I heard that Buddy Hall remarried the same gal after their first divorce, 17 yr gap comes to mind.
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Babe Cranfield plus work at Muzak for 40 years plus used his skill to help put one of his kids through college.

Such a shame his name seldom gets mention much in threads like theses.

Oh yeah Mosconi was married for along time also.
 
I was going to mention him if no one else did...

JB Cases said:
No one mentioned Corey Harper either but he held a full time job, still going to college and now is also running his own business.
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Corey plays pretty damn good for working full time...

Jaden
 
Eric. said:
Here's another contender to the title:

Arthur "Babe" Cranfield- Went to Cornell university, served in the military, 40 year career as vice president of sales for Muzak Corp and... won numerous titles including a 14.1 world championship.


Eric
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That's incredible that the he worked his whole life and yet still has possibly the highest 14.1 run ever!
 
roncook said:
Tom Cruise worked in a toy store until Paul Newman stoppped by. Now Tom goes by the name "Vince" and is on the road with Carmen looking for his next game.
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I beat Vince out of 6k last week. He welshed on the bet.

He said it was my fault because I should have insisted that he post.
 
Little known fact. John Schmidt worked cleaning up the gulf coast after the oil spill happened and now he owns a pool room in w.v.

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