Does anyone out there know where Fatty is buried, and if you do what did he have written on his gravestone?
Minnesota Fats
- Thread starter Island Drive
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Headstone
Thanks for your help, tho no headstone encryptions were found here.
Thanks for your help, tho no headstone encryptions were found here.
Island Drive said:
That stuff is submitted by average people, now that we know where he is buried maybe someone in the area can go over there and take a picture of the grave marker and submit it to Find a Grave. At least find out what it says. Thats an interesting website
Fatty
Evelyn told me that shortly after Fats died that his hussie/called her and as always Evelyn was wondering "what she wanted". During there short conversation Evelyn asked her whats on his Tombstone, since she hesitated, Evelyns wit took over and she said "pepperoni and cheese"? Thats the kind of gal she was. On another note, Evelyn also said that Fatty must of never married her as she showed me the SS checks were still rolling in. ckle
Evelyn told me that shortly after Fats died that his hussie/called her and as always Evelyn was wondering "what she wanted". During there short conversation Evelyn asked her whats on his Tombstone, since she hesitated, Evelyns wit took over and she said "pepperoni and cheese"? Thats the kind of gal she was. On another note, Evelyn also said that Fatty must of never married her as she showed me the SS checks were still rolling in. ckle
Fatty
I was lucky enough to meet him before he died. He pulled up a chair and had his dinner with us at the Hermitage Hotel. He wouldn't sign an autograph, but gave me a card that said "I've been hustled by Minnesota Fats". I still have it.
I'm pretty sure his epitaph states "Rack em' up St. Peter, I beat everyone on earth." I haven't seen it myself, but heard about it several times.
Rick S.
I was lucky enough to meet him before he died. He pulled up a chair and had his dinner with us at the Hermitage Hotel. He wouldn't sign an autograph, but gave me a card that said "I've been hustled by Minnesota Fats". I still have it.
I'm pretty sure his epitaph states "Rack em' up St. Peter, I beat everyone on earth." I haven't seen it myself, but heard about it several times.
Rick S.
I watched a Mosconi vs. Fats and Fats really wasn't that much of a player.
He was playing standing upright and hitting the balls at 50 mph with no regard for position play.
He was playing standing upright and hitting the balls at 50 mph with no regard for position play.
My mother worked for the Ingram Barge Company for 25 years. In the last years of FATS, when he lived in the Stouffer Hotel - she hired him (as a representative for the company) to put on a trick shot exhibition, where he went over like gangbusters. Still had it in his old age. Fats told my mom that she was a "classy" lady. He called the house and my dad answered the phone (not knowing yet that my mom was setting up the exhibition with him) and when he told my dad it was "Minnesota Fats" on the line, pops thought it was his friend playing a joke on him (since my dad was a pool player). Anyhow, my dad said they talked on the phone for about an hour (where Fatty wasn't "in character"). Fatty told my dad that his best game was banks and they talked about a few of the great players of the past, and gambling, among other things. I know he lived in Nashville, rent free for quite some time before he died.
Jerry Forsyth
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You saw him OLD
When Fatty was younger he could play quite well. As NY Fats or Double-Smart Fats he could play very well indeed. But he aged poorly and by the time he had his TV shows in the late 60's or early 70's his game had gone away. His usurping the name 'Minnesota Fats' made a lot of folks angry and jealous because he made more money off his moniker and mouth than they could off of playing, so they ran his game down all the time. But don't be fooled. In his twenties and thirties Fatty could play.
-Jerry
pinkisntwell said:
When Fatty was younger he could play quite well. As NY Fats or Double-Smart Fats he could play very well indeed. But he aged poorly and by the time he had his TV shows in the late 60's or early 70's his game had gone away. His usurping the name 'Minnesota Fats' made a lot of folks angry and jealous because he made more money off his moniker and mouth than they could off of playing, so they ran his game down all the time. But don't be fooled. In his twenties and thirties Fatty could play.
-Jerry
1940's
Evelyn said that was the period when he played his best.
Evelyn said that was the period when he played his best.
When i was a teenager i got to see Fats at a Montgomery Ward store.it was approx.1964 ..after the Hustler movie came out..pool started to be more popular..i was among about 40 peole that showed up for an exhibitian by Fats....it's something i will never forget..his playing was beyond great...he NEVER stopped talking and joking around.i will never forget him saying he just came from playing pool on the North Pole..he said there were no pool tables there so the Eskimos and him cleared a spot on a frozen lake and drilled 6 holes..he said they then modified a few items and played pool most of the day on the ice.....................he was such a personable man.....................but all that knew him said when he was playing for money that he took his game to another level...........a great loss of a wonderful man.........Merry Christmas everyone
Shorty said:
Amarillo Slim has a book called 'In A World Full Of Fat People'. I have a copy of it and I have read it. In that book Amarillo Slim mentions Fats several times. It's a very good read if you are into poker, pool and hustling stories. The inventiveness of this guy will have you laughing.
I bought the book just because I seen it in a book store and I know who Amarillo Slim is. I thought it would all be about poker, but it is quite a bit about pool and hustling also.
I started playing Hold'Em poker two years before it became popular on TV and it is the only form of poker I play now just because it is about the only game most people want to play in the Wendover Nevada casinos I go to. I also play Hold'Em at work every day five days a week at work on break. Everyone is into playing this game, it's just crazy how TV has changed the poker world. Before this became popular on TV I actually played seven card stud quite a bit in the Wendover casinos, but now they do not play that game at all.
Any other good gambling/hustling books you guy's care to tell me about?
Mike
PoolSleuth
Banned
Rick S. said:
Love it.
Fats Played Perfect Pool
Fats played very good pool and he is still helping to grow our sport today. I think that anyone that contributed as much as he did deserves all of our respect. I hope in my lifetime someone else can help as much as he did.
Fats played very good pool and he is still helping to grow our sport today. I think that anyone that contributed as much as he did deserves all of our respect. I hope in my lifetime someone else can help as much as he did.