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Does anyone know when 9-ball first came about and how long it's been around for?
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History of 9-ball
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don giancana said:
I don't know the answer, but will the person that finds out get any special
"favors" from you down the road? I mean, I don't even know how to address you...is it "your Excellency", "your lordship"? Man...this is exciting...I only read about Gotti, but I've never gotten to talk to a real "DON".
(I am your humble servant...call on me any time you wish)
don giancana said:
I know it was around in the 30's for sure, but not
sure exactly when it first started. I think I heard
once that it's as old as straight pool but up until
the 1950's it was just a gambling game. That must
have been a tougher game on the 5 x 10's.
seems like i remember reading somewhere that it just became a offshoot off simple 15 ball rotation. I think byrnes books usually have a good history of pool in them, somebody check im at work lol
don giancana
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drivermaker said:I don't know the answer, but will the person that finds out get any special
"favors" from you down the road? I mean, I don't even know how to address you...is it "your Excellency", "your lordship"? Man...this is exciting...I only read about Gotti, but I've never gotten to talk to a real "DON".
(I am your humble servant...call on me any time you wish)
'Your Excellancy' is good enough.
Just answering my questions will be all thats needed at the moment.
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mjantti said:
My understanding is that 8-ball is older than straight pool. The very design of the balls is a direct result of 8-ball. I believe the game was originally called "Brunswick" if I remember correctly.
(this is all from stuff I read a while back)
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mjantti said:
Straight pool was invented in 1910. The first straight pool tournament was held from March 25 through April 6, 1912. (Good thing Danny Basavich's grandfather wasn't playing at that time, it wouldn't have ended until 1915.)
Before this time, the championship for pocket billiards was called "continuous pool," a variation of the game that was first played in 1889 and lasted through 1911. In continuous pool, all balls were racked, INCLUDING the last ball after it was pocketed. Jerome Keogh came up with the idea of leaving the last ball on the table and using it as "the break shot," thereby creating the new game of 14.1. The winner of the first tournament was Edward Ralph and the high run was 46, by Alfredo De Oro.
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Rodd said:
Your memory might be better than mine...wait a minute...I wasn't even there.
All of my information came straight out of the second edition of the Billiard Encyclopedia. There were no references in there about Line Up, only what I wrote. I also got no indication that 8 ball was an older game than 14.1, although there was no mention of it. It just seems the way the encyclopedia had the progression of 6 pocket pool from billiards, balk-line, and snooker, 14.1 came first. I don't even now that 9 ball was invented until the 30's or 40's. According to info in the BCA, until about 1920 American billiards consisted mainly of carom games. Pool was a dying and almost dead sport. I guess we'll need something that goes beyond the Billiard Encyclopedia for information, whatever that could be.
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