Old Straight Pool Videos?

StraightPoolIU

StraightPoolIU

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Does anyone know if there is somewhere that has videos of old straightpool tournaments that might be currently out of print. I was thinking along the lines of any of the old PPPA World Championships or any of the U.S. Opens before 1992. Also as an adendem does anyone know why the old matches between Mosconi and Fats from TV have never been reaired on ESPN Classic or made available in video form? I understand these were quite popular at the time, but the only things I saw on ESPN classic were trickshot magic, international challenge of champions etc etc.
 
Giving this a bump. I don't think that the Mosconi/Fats tapes were worth thinking about. No good pool there... as I remember. Mostly just edited crap with Fats running his mouth to entertain... again, that's how I remember it.
 
JimS said:
Giving this a bump. I don't think that the Mosconi/Fats tapes were worth thinking about. No good pool there... as I remember. Mostly just edited crap with Fats running his mouth to entertain... again, that's how I remember it.
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You're right Jim, it wasn't very good at all.

I know there are some Irving Crane tapes out there somewhere, as well as some old stuff from the Accu-stats vault (but you'd have to nudge Pat to transfer it over to dvd because I believe it's all VHS). I have the VHS tape of Mike Zuglan's 109 against Cisero Murphy - I think that was in 1991. I'm also pretty sure that Pat has some Miz laying around somewhere (let's hope so).
 
StraightPoolIU said:
Does anyone know if there is somewhere that has videos of old straightpool tournaments that might be currently out of print. I was thinking along the lines of any of the old PPPA World Championships or any of the U.S. Opens before 1992. Also as an adendem does anyone know why the old matches between Mosconi and Fats from TV have never been reaired on ESPN Classic or made available in video form? I understand these were quite popular at the time, but the only things I saw on ESPN classic were trickshot magic, international challenge of champions etc etc.
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I believe you can get a lot of old clips, like some of the old Mosconi and Hoppe WWII era trick shot videos, and the Mosconi/Fats events, on a couple of tapes Bert Kinister use to have in his catalog.

I also believe there's a 1963 Mosconi/Caras 125 point "World Invitational" that originally aired on ABC WWoS floating around somewhere out there. On that tape they refer to a match from the previous fall, that may also be out there.

Lou Figueroa
 
I'd like to check out some of those too.

I have some stuff from the 90's, send me a pm and maybe I can figure out if I have some of what you're looking for. I don't have the PPPA but I may have a video or two from the 1993 cleveland invitational, a 1989 match with ortman vs. jones, sigel vs zuglan at the 92 usosp, a few from the 95 maine event, and a handful of random other videos.
 
old straight pool vids

lfigueroa said:
I also believe there's a 1963 Mosconi/Caras 125 point "World Invitational" that originally aired on ABC WWoS floating around somewhere out there. On that tape they refer to a match from the previous fall, that may also be out there.

Lou Figueroa
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I've got the 63 Mosconi/Caras and also have some old Crane/Burke and Crane with some other guys, 1986 I think.

Blackjack:

I'd love to see the Zuglan vhs. I could convert it to dvd for you.
 
Hey dmgwalsh !

I would like to get the Mosconi/Caras 1963 match. Could you tell me where
you found it, or, could I somehow buy a copy from you. Would appreciate
info. Thanks, Palmerjohn.
 
dmgwalsh said:
I've got the 63 Mosconi/Caras and also have some old Crane/Burke and Crane with some other guys, 1986 I think.

Blackjack:

I'd love to see the Zuglan vhs. I could convert it to dvd for you.
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Care to enlighten us on the level of play in the Mosconi/Caras match.
Any good runs?

I know Willie was still capable of raining 100s in 1963, and Jimmy
was still prety sporty too. IIRC - Caras was to win the first US Open
in 1965(?) - anybody remember?

Dale
 
Mosconi/Caras

PALMERJOHN said:
I would like to get the Mosconi/Caras 1963 match. Could you tell me where
you found it, or, could I somehow buy a copy from you. Would appreciate
info. Thanks, Palmerjohn.
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pm me your address and I'll burn you a copy for the grand sum of bupkus.
 
pdcue said:
Care to enlighten us on the level of play in the Mosconi/Caras match.
Any good runs?

I know Willie was still capable of raining 100s in 1963, and Jimmy
was still prety sporty too. IIRC - Caras was to win the first US Open
in 1965(?) - anybody remember?

Dale
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Haven't watched it in a long while. I remember Willie pouting on the sidelines :mad: and Caras making like Machine Gun Lou and knocking everything in.:D
 
dmgwalsh said:
Haven't watched it in a long while. I remember Willie pouting on the sidelines :mad: and Caras making like Machine Gun Lou and knocking everything in.:D
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I enjoyed watching it even though Willie was a little past his prime at that point. One thing I remember is how Caras kind of shuffled as he moved around the table, he seemed very focused. The referee would call the ball, "two ball, corner pocket" and then reach out over the table and point to the ball and then draw a line from the ball to the pocket with his finger. That seemed to annoy Wille.

There is an interview of Caras on propoolvideo.com that is worth watching. He is still sharp as a tack, can remember details of matches from 50 years ago.
 
I have the Sigel 150&out against Zuglan in 1992, but I've also heard Sigel has another 150&out on tape that's no longer in print. That suprises me because who doesn't want to see 150 and out? Also I heard Archer has one on tape that's not available any longer either. Anybody have those?
 
StraightPoolIU said:
I have the Sigel 150&out against Zuglan in 1992, but I've also heard Sigel has another 150&out on tape that's no longer in print. That suprises me because who doesn't want to see 150 and out? Also I heard Archer has one on tape that's not available any longer either. Anybody have those?
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sigel has a 150 form the 1989 us open vs rempe
zuglan had a 148 and out vs ray martin in the 92 us open
zuglan had another 148 and out in 1988 vs calavito
and reyes has a high run of 123 run in 1995 maine event.
and rempe has a 133 and out vs varner in the 1989 cleveland 14.1

all but the 92 zuglan i belive are out of print

but if anyone knows straight pool videos it is Dennis
 
There used to be a series of tapes availble called the Legends of Pool. Balsis, Lassiter, Cowboy Moore, others. I don't recall if any were straight pool however. I have a couple of the tapes. I'll see if I can find them... if anyone is interested.
 
StraightPoolIU said:
I have the Sigel 150&out against Zuglan in 1992, but I've also heard Sigel has another 150&out on tape that's no longer in print. That suprises me because who doesn't want to see 150 and out? Also I heard Archer has one on tape that's not available any longer either. Anybody have those?
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Got them both.

Archer/Carter 1992, I believe. No commentary.
Sigel/Rempe 150 and out.
 
The US Open title match between Crane/Balsis, is in the Divx site "Stage 6".

I'll post the link a little later, as the site stage 6 admin team must be doing some updating to the site, etc, as the site is unavailable at the moment, but I'll post the link later, when it's available again.

Willie
 
TheWizard said:
The US Open title match between Crane/Balsis, is in the Divx site "Stage 6".

I'll post the link a little later, as the site stage 6 admin team must be doing some updating to the site, etc, as the site is unavailable at the moment, but I'll post the link later, when it's available again.

Willie
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Here's the link...

Crane VS Balsis

its working now.
 
mosconi caras

dmgwalsh said:
pm me your address and I'll burn you a copy for the grand sum of bupkus.
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Dennis

Could you burn one for me as well. Thanks.

Poz
 
prewarhero said:
zuglan had a 148 and out vs ray martin in the 92 us open
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Actually, Zuglan runs 148 out of the gate and dogs it needing 2 balls.
It's the video where he makes a gun from his fingers, and shoots himself.
 
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