Phenom Players at a young age.

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How soon we all forget...........David "the giant killer" Howard from his power break to his center ball thin cuts David was a force in his teens.
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Tommy-D said:
> I had a chance to ask Charlie Williams,Shannon Daulton,Coltrain,and Corey about this in 2000. All 4 agreed that none of them could have handled Shane McMinn playing 9-ball at 16. Of course Shannon won the LOP at 17 or 19,depending on his real birthdate. All 4 of these guys were sober too.

If Shannon,a road man at that age,says Shane was a better 9-baller at that age,that says a s**tload. Shannon went on to tell me about a road trip back then where the lineup was Shannon,Dennis Hatch,and Archer,with Buddy Hall driving.

All of that is now voided because of Wu. Tommy D.
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AGREED. Shane McMinn was a monster on the bar table and on the big table. I remember going to BCA nationals one year and reading about some of the people in the tourney. I wanted to get an idea of how good some of these kids were. The one online tourney I saw had Shane McMinn beating Jose Parica 9-1 late in a tourney. VERY STRONG. I think Shane has one the BCA title 3-4 times and that was knocking off one Jesse Bowman back then who also won it numerous times.

Jesse would have to be considered a prodigy on a barbox in his teen years. He played strong on the big table but was amazing on the box.
 
3andstop said:
Dunno if this is for current youngsters only, but a while back some kid named Willie did pretty good for himself also. :)
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Willie M played Greenleaf at age 6 and gave him a run for his money. Willie Hoppe won the world championship at age of 12 or 13 from Maurice Vignaux.:D
 
Only ERO's said:
AGREED. Shane McMinn was a monster on the bar table and on the big table. I remember going to BCA nationals one year and reading about some of the people in the tourney. I wanted to get an idea of how good some of these kids were. The one online tourney I saw had Shane McMinn beating Jose Parica 9-1 late in a tourney. VERY STRONG. I think Shane has one the BCA title 3-4 times and that was knocking off one Jesse Bowman back then who also won it numerous times.

Jesse would have to be considered a prodigy on a barbox in his teen years. He played strong on the big table but was amazing on the box.
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jesse was the only person to ever win it back to back in both age groups
 
Check out this video of a 13 yr old from Tuscon AZ named Ronnie Kidd, this video is from this weekends tournament of the Arizona Desert Classic Tour 9 ball on the big table.He is playing our own Big Cat Ray Robles in this match,you need to fast forward past the first match to 1:51:00 and you will see the match,I believe it went hill-hill.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/657313
 
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