Historic straight pool champion website?

Celtic

Celtic

AZB's own 8-ball jihadist
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I once somehow got onto a website that allowed you to click through every year of the straight pool championships and challenge matches from way back in the Greenleaf era and right through until the 1980's. It let you see every single shift of the title and who was champion when.

I have no clue on where that website is or if it even exists anymore. I cannot find it on a google search due to all the crap you get regardless of the search inputs. Does anyone know of the site I am talking about and where it is? I was on the TS chat and was discussing Lassiter and I can swear I remember seeing him having won the straight pool championships quite a few times and that he was not just a 8-ball specialist as history seems to have remembered him as.
 
Celtic said:
I once somehow got onto a website that allowed you to click through every year of the straight pool championships and challenge matches from way back in the Greenleaf era and right through until the 1980's. It let you see every single shift of the title and who was champion when.

I have no clue on where that website is or if it even exists anymore. I cannot find it on a google search due to all the crap you get regardless of the search inputs. Does anyone know of the site I am talking about and where it is? I was on the TS chat and was discussing Lassiter and I can swear I remember seeing him having won the straight pool championships quite a few times and that he was not just a 8-ball specialist as history seems to have remembered him as.
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Quite right. Lassiter was a 14.1 Champion. One thing that makes it hard to track is that in the 1960's, it can be argued that the World Championship was the third most important title in 14.1, behind the US Open and behind Johnston City. Lassiter did, in fact, win the World 14.1 Championship in 1963, 1964, 1966, and 1967. If I recall correctly, he also won the 14.1 event at Johnston City at least once. In 14.1, Lassiter was certainly mentionable with future Hall of Famers Irving Crane and Joe Balsis, who were obviously susperstars of 14.1 in the mid-1960's.

Wimpy's best game was nine ball, and I've heard more than a few suggest that he was the best nine ball player ever.
 
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