Years ago, in the finals of a tournament, I broke the final game in a race to five, hill hill and a guy playing darts next the table went down like a bag of rocks, I thought the guy shit racked me, come to find out the head ball in the rack was laying on the table in two pieces, part of the fragments went into the dart players eyes and some kid ran off with the twelve ball halves. had to be a flaw and I hit the flaw dead on. It was really a commotion as side bets were all over the place on the hill game. Once everything and the dart player was attended to as he was taken to a hospital to have his eyes checked, we got back to the game a half hour later. Would have liked to have had that twelve ball in a little display case as I lost the hill game on a break and run, jawed the last object ball getting perfect shape on an eight ball as I had extreme left English on the cue ball to dig it's way out of a corner to get up table and across the table for the eight back in the same long rail side pocket, dang. cost me $ 300.00 back in the early 80's. That stung like a bad bad bee. But, years later, it still comes up as a rare situation as it was nothing like this retread. Never saw the inside of an object ball before or since.
Keep the ball for a good show piece, you'll have fun with it down the road.
