Historic - The Babe Cranfield's cue
A lot of great posts on this thread, thank you very much. I was going after the past on this thread, and I think it's captured that. Here's a wonderful piece of history, the cue of Babe Cranfield. As you can see, it's a beat-up Rambow Hoppe style. Sometime late in its life it received another wrap, but the original was white with green speck. Babe is more than not, given the credit for the longest run ever, though in practice, a 768. It was most likely with this cue, as Babe told me this was the cue that he exchanged with Willie Mosconi very early in their pool careers when they thought the other cue felt better.
I need to give credit to my good friend Larry Moy, attorney, and author of The Straight Pool Bible, with Babe Cranfield, for these pictures. I was good friends with Babe primarily in the 70s, and Larry was his friend and co-author into the 80s and beyond. Anyhow, the Babe taught us both a good deal of cue attitude, so many thanks to both.
As you can see, the cue in the first two pictures is pretty well worn, but that's how they used them in those days. Cues were not closet queens. The last picture is from an engraving on his case, simply titled "Babe"
All the best,
WW
A lot of great posts on this thread, thank you very much. I was going after the past on this thread, and I think it's captured that. Here's a wonderful piece of history, the cue of Babe Cranfield. As you can see, it's a beat-up Rambow Hoppe style. Sometime late in its life it received another wrap, but the original was white with green speck. Babe is more than not, given the credit for the longest run ever, though in practice, a 768. It was most likely with this cue, as Babe told me this was the cue that he exchanged with Willie Mosconi very early in their pool careers when they thought the other cue felt better.
I need to give credit to my good friend Larry Moy, attorney, and author of The Straight Pool Bible, with Babe Cranfield, for these pictures. I was good friends with Babe primarily in the 70s, and Larry was his friend and co-author into the 80s and beyond. Anyhow, the Babe taught us both a good deal of cue attitude, so many thanks to both.
As you can see, the cue in the first two pictures is pretty well worn, but that's how they used them in those days. Cues were not closet queens. The last picture is from an engraving on his case, simply titled "Babe"
All the best,
WW