Your opinions on who was the best,i dont know who was but i know Greenleaf played on a 5 by 10 which makes a difference and he sure was a flashy guy unlike Mosconi.
Greenleaf or Mosconi? Whos the Best?
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Smorgass Bored said:
hmmm...I thought his name was Mr. Greenjeans not Greenleaf.
Fast Lenny said:
Mosconi played on 5x10's too when he was in competition.
Its like asking who was the better boxer Joe Louis or Mohammed Ali you can't really tell. Neither of them fought.
Mosconi and Greenleaf did play eachother but when Mosconi was winning Greenleaf was past his prime, and when Greenleaf was winning Mosconi hadn't hit his stride yet.
In terms of who was the best pool player ever, I don't know . But from what I understand the older folk will tell you Ralph Greenleaf, the not so old folk will say Willie Mosconi and the younger folk will tell you Efren Reyes or Mike Sigel.
What certainly doesn't help the situation is that there isn't any footage of either men in their prime. But I believe that Mosconi participated in some filmed matches when he was younger, not really young but under 50. If the IPT makes Pool hip again maybe some companies that have this stuff in archives might dust it off for the market. Or maybe Im too optimistic.
Cameron Smith said:
They were both the best in my opnion...they both dominated their eras, and that's really all you could ask of a player.
I have an old tape with many short clips from the 1920's and 1930's, it has Willie Hoppe, Jake Schaefer jr putting on a great balkline exhibition and there's also Mosconi, Crane and Greenleaf when they were young doig trickshots. There's one clip of Greeneaf playing in the final of the 1926 World Championships and he ran 125 and out in the final but they only show the last 5 or 6 shots but what impressed me was his composure at the table...he looks as calm as if he was just practicing by himself, almost bored.
Bobby
Is that where Keith got the sidewinder stroke?Gerry said: