I traveled into a local bar lastnight . True I was looking for a game.Nothing gigantic something even about my speed .Fair but not great speed. Something that I could battle for hours and come close to even.So I sit at the bar nursing my beer and waiting for a bigmouth.
About 20 min later I hear that bigmouth!I hear him very well . So slowly over the next hour I coherx my way over to the other side of the bar where the table they are on is .I am sure I have mark here.The guy makes balls but no position play at all.He keeps asking to increase the bets against the local drunks.
So I am sitting there with my back to him as he pounds through the balls.The place is pretty busy and its elbow room now at the bar.A buddy of mine pushes his way beside me at the bar and orders a couple shots includeing 1 for yours truly.After a battle of " no" I have to take the shot.He looks at me and says you know who that is on the table there? I says no who? He says thats the Baltimore kid.
I spin around on my barseat because I know the guy that was just shooting was NOT the kid! I asked him who told you this? He said well everyone in the place is saying it is.It was not the kid.I knew the kid.So I walked over to the guy feeling my booze well now and said so your the Baltimore Kid hugh?He said yepper thats me but I need to keep it on the low down.
This guy was about 25 years old 15 to 20 years too young .I know the kid could not have stayed so young looking.The kid made more money by looseing then winning he was a true hustler so I looked under his chin for a big scar.The first tell!
You see years back he was supposed to dump bad to very big named shooter and the shooter got mouthy to him.So he ran out on the shooter in a major way.I think he closed 3 sets of straight pool race to 100 and the big named guy got up maybe 5 times to see the worst safty imaginable.Impossible shots.
The kid could look at any clump of balls and pick one out and make it so the safes left by the bigname guy were of no signifigance.The kids backers were of the "Italian type" and that night while leaving the establishment the kids backer rammed him down into the concrete and busted his chin really bad.I Saw it!There is still probibly a blood stain on the ground there still.
He was supposed to loose bad and he shut that guy down . I remember the kid had stiches horrible under the chin.This guy here had not a scratch and I know that had to leave a bad scar!Unless he got major plastic sugery this was not the kid!!!!
Then I remeber the cue the Kid used.It had a "w" on the top between the points.almost like this -W- .I remember because when I asked him what that meant he said it was for "winners" because it was a winners cue.I dont know who the maker was but I know there was a "W" on the top of the cue between the points and it was a very rare cue.
I saw the kid buy another cue that had a "W" on it a few years later also from a player who also did not know what it was.I asked a local pool hall owner(Tipper for those who remember Baltimore Billiards) who made the "W" cue and he said they are made for winners and laughed at me.The Baltimore Kid Prided on this "W" cue and I looked at this guys cue and there was no "W" on it at all . This was definatly NOT the Baltimore Kid.
This is the second time in about 10 years I have seen a FAKE Baltimore Kid .I have also seen FAKE Breadmans-3 Fingers-Cigar Toms and Siegals(local great players) except Mike took it to the limit.I hate it.These guys have earned the names they have.Heck I think all are supposed to be dead but Mike Siegal and Cigar Tom.I was told 3 fingers and the Kid were suppose to play dead and moved and stayed off the tables as they made so much cash hustleing that certain people would want them dead.Then they both misteriously up and died or something wierd.
How many players have any of you met that said they were a top name locally or pro and were just a wannabe ? By the way the fake Baltimore kid with no scar and no "W" cue was asked to leave by the owner of the bar!In a
very convinceing manner.I am sure the real Kid is somewhere in heaven playing straightpool by himself on a barbox.I think all the fakes should be taken outside and get a true attitude adjustment.
About 20 min later I hear that bigmouth!I hear him very well . So slowly over the next hour I coherx my way over to the other side of the bar where the table they are on is .I am sure I have mark here.The guy makes balls but no position play at all.He keeps asking to increase the bets against the local drunks.
So I am sitting there with my back to him as he pounds through the balls.The place is pretty busy and its elbow room now at the bar.A buddy of mine pushes his way beside me at the bar and orders a couple shots includeing 1 for yours truly.After a battle of " no" I have to take the shot.He looks at me and says you know who that is on the table there? I says no who? He says thats the Baltimore kid.
I spin around on my barseat because I know the guy that was just shooting was NOT the kid! I asked him who told you this? He said well everyone in the place is saying it is.It was not the kid.I knew the kid.So I walked over to the guy feeling my booze well now and said so your the Baltimore Kid hugh?He said yepper thats me but I need to keep it on the low down.
This guy was about 25 years old 15 to 20 years too young .I know the kid could not have stayed so young looking.The kid made more money by looseing then winning he was a true hustler so I looked under his chin for a big scar.The first tell!
You see years back he was supposed to dump bad to very big named shooter and the shooter got mouthy to him.So he ran out on the shooter in a major way.I think he closed 3 sets of straight pool race to 100 and the big named guy got up maybe 5 times to see the worst safty imaginable.Impossible shots.
The kid could look at any clump of balls and pick one out and make it so the safes left by the bigname guy were of no signifigance.The kids backers were of the "Italian type" and that night while leaving the establishment the kids backer rammed him down into the concrete and busted his chin really bad.I Saw it!There is still probibly a blood stain on the ground there still.
He was supposed to loose bad and he shut that guy down . I remember the kid had stiches horrible under the chin.This guy here had not a scratch and I know that had to leave a bad scar!Unless he got major plastic sugery this was not the kid!!!!
Then I remeber the cue the Kid used.It had a "w" on the top between the points.almost like this -W- .I remember because when I asked him what that meant he said it was for "winners" because it was a winners cue.I dont know who the maker was but I know there was a "W" on the top of the cue between the points and it was a very rare cue.
I saw the kid buy another cue that had a "W" on it a few years later also from a player who also did not know what it was.I asked a local pool hall owner(Tipper for those who remember Baltimore Billiards) who made the "W" cue and he said they are made for winners and laughed at me.The Baltimore Kid Prided on this "W" cue and I looked at this guys cue and there was no "W" on it at all . This was definatly NOT the Baltimore Kid.
This is the second time in about 10 years I have seen a FAKE Baltimore Kid .I have also seen FAKE Breadmans-3 Fingers-Cigar Toms and Siegals(local great players) except Mike took it to the limit.I hate it.These guys have earned the names they have.Heck I think all are supposed to be dead but Mike Siegal and Cigar Tom.I was told 3 fingers and the Kid were suppose to play dead and moved and stayed off the tables as they made so much cash hustleing that certain people would want them dead.Then they both misteriously up and died or something wierd.
How many players have any of you met that said they were a top name locally or pro and were just a wannabe ? By the way the fake Baltimore kid with no scar and no "W" cue was asked to leave by the owner of the bar!In a
very convinceing manner.I am sure the real Kid is somewhere in heaven playing straightpool by himself on a barbox.I think all the fakes should be taken outside and get a true attitude adjustment.
