Legends of Pool

[Jagr Fan]

Does anyone know, factually, who won ESPN's Legends of Pool that was broadcast @ 1986....??
I've searched Google and ESPN's web-site to no avail...!!!

 

[Ratamon]

I believe ESPN only did three of them in 1982 through to 1984 but icbw. The winners were: Willie Mosconi (‘82), Luther Lassiter (‘83) and Jimmy Moore (‘84). Never heard about any subsequent ESPN Legends events


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[Jagr Fan]

Thanks, Ratamon, for the response and the information.

 

[sjm]

I actually attended one of them in Atlantic City and still can't remember who won. The Legends events were good fun.

 

[WildWing]

I actually attended one of them in Atlantic City and still can't remember who won. The Legends events were good fun.

If you were in Atlantic City, it was Willie Mosconi winning in 1982 at Harrah's. If you there in 1983, it was the Claridge, with Luther Lassiter, being the winner.

Bonus point, if you at the Catskills, New York, 1984, Jimmie Moore was the winner.

All the best,
WW

 

[sjm]

If you were in Atlantic City, it was Willie Mosconi winning in 1982 at Harrah's. If you there in 1983, it was the Claridge, with Luther Lassiter, being the winner.

Bonus point, if you at the Catskills, New York, 1984, Jimmie Moore was the winner.

All the best,
WW

I was at Harrah's, so I guess I attended the 1982 edition.

 

[WildWing]

I was at Harrah's, so I guess I attended the 1982 edition.

I should have seen you there. It was the only one that Babe Cranfield and Joe Balsis attended.

All the best,
WW

 

[arnaldo]

Does anyone know, factually, who won ESPN's Legends of Pool that was broadcast @ 1986....??
I've searched Google and ESPN's web-site to no avail...!!!

That's easy to find out; just email Allen Hopkins He'll be able to instantly tell you; he's got a razor-sharp memory. He commentated the great majority of them. In fact, as I recall -- all of them. Message him by phone or email here:

https://superbilliardsexpo.com/contact/

Btw, a Super Expo is scheduled for the coming April.

Arnaldo

 

[measureman]

That's easy to find out; just email Allen Hopkins He'll be able to instantly tell you; he's got a razor-sharp memory. He commentated the great majority of them. In fact, as I recall -- all of them. Message him by phone or email here:

https://superbilliardsexpo.com/contact/

Btw, a Super Expo is scheduled for the coming April.

Arnaldo

Hopkins is the one that called Mosconi Marsconi.

 

[arnaldo]

Hopkins is the one that called Mosconi Marsconi.

Nothing to do with his being deeply knowledgeable, immersed in, (and highly contributory to) professional pool for five decades. The "Marsconi" pronunciation thing -- and dozens of other equally Irish-inflected east-Jersey ones were not uncommon in some NJ neighborhoods and rooms where Allen grew up and played. Miz had a few -- actually entertainingly lyrical -- ones via years in the Elizabeth-area Jersey rooms.

Arnaldo

 

[measureman]

Nothing to do with his being deeply knowledgeable, immersed in, (and highly contributory to) professional pool for five decades. The "Marsconi" pronunciation thing -- and dozens of other equally Irish-inflected east-Jersey ones were not uncommon in some NJ neighborhoods and rooms where Allen grew up and played. Miz had a few -- actually entertainingly lyrical -- ones via years in the Elizabeth-area Jersey rooms.

Arnaldo

I grew up in N.J. and couldn't stand the way some people spoke.
Marsconi ,Pizzer (Pizza),soder (soda) areaer (area) and so on.

 

[arnaldo]

I grew up in N.J. and couldn't stand the way some people spoke.
Marsconi ,Pizzer (Pizza),soder (soda) areaer (area) and so on.

Some eccentric Philly ones annoy non-locals: "pewst office" "atteeetude" "Sa'erday" (for Saturday). I won't go into the beauties I heard and osmosis-acquired in my East New York (Brooklyn) rooms. Some took me years to shake and pronounce correctly.

Arnaldo

 

[Buzzard II]

Northeast NJ. 14 miles from midtown. Forever my mother was saying, "don't ever be one of those, deez, dems and dozers" So I learned to speak proper English, when home.

 

[arnaldo]

Northeast NJ. 14 miles from midtown. Forever my mother was saying, "don't ever be one of those, deez, dems and dozers" So I learned to speak proper English, when home.

I'm certain your mom would have known, as our family did -- that Hoboken-born Sinatra (same accent as Brooklyn-ese) sang with immaculately perfect diction, yet off-mic -- in general non-Show-biz casual conversation -- was invariably a DD&D man and quite comfortable with it, as all we native NYC-area guys with rough beginnings were.

 

[Buzzard II]

Yeah, dat accent comes from da Jamokes gettin lost on the Path trains going to da Clambroth House.

 

[jay helfert]

Hopkins is the one that called Mosconi Marsconi.

And if you got hooked, Allen said you were "schnookered."

 

[Black-Balled]

Efrim was not bothered.

 

[Johnny Rosato]

Does anyone know, factually, who won ESPN's Legends of Pool that was broadcast @ 1986....??
I've searched Google and ESPN's web-site to no avail...!!!

Is this what you're looking for?

 

[book collector]

Hopkins is the one that called Mosconi Marsconi.

He always called Efren, Efern, I know he was corrected at least 1,000 times , so it was intentional.
I asked myself why, and the only logical answer was that if he called them by some other name , they were not as intimidating.
He was stealing some of their mojo.