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Does anyone know if any film of Mosconi playing exists? I would have thought wide world of sports may have some. I always wondered why the great pool shootouts never made it to release.
Mosconi on film
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I would like to see some newsreel footage of Mosconi actually playing in competition ages 10-40 or so. At his young age he was touring with Ralph and later on he was dominating. Most of the video I have seen is either old Mosconi or of Mosconi doing trick shots not in competition. Greatest player of his era, I would have loved to see him play.
The relative scarcity of footage of Mosconi (especially Mosconi before he suffered a stroke in the late 1950's) serves to remind us how much Accu-stats has added to our game. The next generation of 14.1 players will have the luxury of studying footage of Hohmann, Feijen, Schmidt, Immonen, Appleton and others as a means of learning the game, and they'll be the wiser for it.
I was lucky I got to see Mosconi do an exhibition when I was in college. He was in his sixties and played a local to a hundred straight pool and ran a 49 leaving the guy a shot to make 1 ball and then after a few safeties ran 50 leaving the guy a shot to make 1 ball and then finished it. And he did this talking the whole time telling how he was managing the run picking his key ball and break ball half way through the rack.
Footage of him actually in play during that era is indeed rare, as tv was still in it's infancy, and even then, Hoppe held the spotlight many times instead. However, there are still many many exhibition films and news reels out there, but they're currently locked up in the network archives.
Those were two of the prop bet shots my Dad taught me when he was teaching me how to hustle back in the early 1950's. I took a lot of lunch money and later older peoples money with about six trick shots. As I got older he taught me the art of hustling. I came up with the cons myself.
I always had a job or business from 12 to 62 years old. A lot of months I made a lot more on the pool table playing for only $2 to $20 a game than on the other. I was a little different than most pool players and hustles. I invested it and got a lot of intrest on it...like owning about 200 racing Greyhounds. Some of my dogs won 75k in one race. Johnnyt
I always had a job or business from 12 to 62 years old. A lot of months I made a lot more on the pool table playing for only $2 to $20 a game than on the other. I was a little different than most pool players and hustles. I invested it and got a lot of intrest on it...like owning about 200 racing Greyhounds. Some of my dogs won 75k in one race. Johnnyt