Happy Birthday, Ralph Greenleaf. 11/3/1899

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According to Wikipedia:eek::
Ralph Greenleaf (November 3, 1899 in Monmouth, Illinois – March 15, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American professional pool and carom billiards player. Greenleaf is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. Between the years 1919 and 1938, he won the World Straight Pool Championship nineteen times.
His obituary in The New York Times said of Greenleaf, in March 1950: "What Babe Ruth did for baseball, Dempsey did for fighting, Tilden did for tennis...Greenleaf did for pocket billiards."
 
Amsterdam Billiards has the only public viewing of a Ralph Greenleaf painting.
 
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Pin said:
Do you have a pic?
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Its not a close up.
Greenleaf is left, Cisero right.

Ask Mike Yednak on Facebook, its a simple request and he posts often.
 
And here is a picture of Ralph playing "The Jimmy", a standard artistic billiard shot -- four rails in the corner...

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The portrait could be of Ralph in his older years. A balding man was the sign to me.
 
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