Peter Margo

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From what little I had read here and there, it appears that Mr. Margo is one of the giants of the game. Is there anyone out there who could share some stories about Mr. Margo, and his style of play?

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garczar said:
Fairly impressive resume: http://www.petermargo.com/biography.html
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Great, great player, stayed mostly around the NE. One of the few world-beaters from that area that never made it down to Tampa in the winter for the Citrus Open ( early to late 70s ) at Baker's. Wish I had gotten to see him play.

And this sounds a bit "dumb" as I write it ( as if this is somehow an accurate "gauge" of a player's greatness ), but there isn't one thing on Youtube either about him or of him playing, at least that I can find under Pete or Petey or Peter Margo. That's a shame. The guy's a champion.
 
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Michael Andros said:
Great, great player, stayed mostly around the NE. One of the few world-beaters from that area that never made it down to Tampa in the winter for the Citrus Open ( early to late 70s ) at Baker's. Wish I had gotten to see him play.

And this sounds a bit "dumb" as I write it ( as if this is somehow an accurate "gauge" of a player's greatness ), but there isn't one thing on Youtube either about him or of him playing, at least that I can find under Pete or Petey or Peter Margo. That's a shame. The guy's a champion.
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Not that it had anything to do with the way Pete played but I believe he was, at one time, Steve Mizerak's brother in law.;)
 
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I heard he played with a Balabuska his entire career. I have a picture hanging on my wall of him with Danny Dileberto and Fred Astaire taken in 1968 in L.A.

Another story is he got into the Video busn. during it's peak years and made a fortune.
 
I saw Margo many times in his prime and he was an amazing 14.1 player, a threat to beat even the biggest stars of the game. Margo was, in my estimation, Jim Rempe's equal at 14.1, though perhaps not quite on the level of a Mike Sigel or Steve Mizerak. I believe it was in the 1979 PPPA World 14.1 Championships that he set a record for the most 100 ball runs in one world 14.1 championship --- it was either 6 or 7 --- but he ran into Joe Balsis in a late round match and watched Balsis run 138 and out on him to eliminate him.

Petey, as we all knew him, was a great player who gave it up early. He'd have more than likely been a BCA Hall of Famer if he'd stuck with it.

I might add that he was a supernice guy, too, with an engaging personality.
 
Pete Margo

If memory serves - Petey was also involved in running and or designing cues for Fred Mali - AKA Mali Cues briefly near the end - just before Mali went overseas for cues and sold the assets of the cue business in Massachusetts and closed shop there.
 
franko said:
I heard he played with a Balabuska his entire career. I have a picture hanging on my wall of him with Danny Dileberto and Fred Astaire taken in 1968 in L.A.

Another story is he got into the Video busn. during it's peak years and made a fortune.
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Man, you gotta share that picture.
 
Black-Balled said:
Man, you gotta share that picture.
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Here is s pic of that pic from Pete Margo’s web site


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