Player that passed away while playing

I was in Vegas in April for APA singles nationals with Ted Harris. We were sitting in line at 3 am in the morning waiting for Indian food and Ted was telling me stories from the road. He was in Seattle a number of years ago and he was playing a guy they called stinky Bob. Ted asked him...hey why do they call u stinky Bob? This guy, kinda surly snarls back...what? do i look feking clean to you? Ted said he thought well no actually you dont....

So they get to playing 9ball and Ted is winning. Stinky Bob starts complaining about everything and grabbing his chest and saying...jezzus karisttt man.....your killing me! your just killing me....

Ted ends up busting the guy and he cracks his cue, and starts to leave...goes down the stairs about half way and collapses. Dead at the bottom of the stairs.
 
A oldschool player living in Charlotte NC for many years Clyde Mckinney made a shot and dropped dead over the table at Morey's Billiards a few years ago. Clyde had asked me to play some 9ball a few months earlier for $20 race to 6, he makes the 9 on the break 3 straight racks and beats me 6 to 1 so I asked for a spot. He said I ain't spotting anyone after 1 set and I didn't get to see you play anyway so he unscrewed and left.--LOL

Around the same time a room on the other side of town had two deaths and 6 tables covered in blood by a guy with a knife who got mad because someone put a cigarette butt in his almost empty beer bottle. My friend recovered the tables after they were pressure washed cause he was worried about AID'S from the blood and wouldn't touch them till they did. That room was shut down by the Police dept. for this and two other murders in the parking lot the same year.--Leonard
 
At one time I had my good friend Curt on my APA team. Curt was 80+ yrs old, and nearly blind, but amazingly still played pretty solid as long as he didn't shoot in the 8 thinking it was the 4 or 6... While in his 80s, he was the league MVP (or "top dog") in two different divisions at the same time.

I wasn't with him at the time, but Curt passed one night while playing a league match, and I'm glad he went out doing what he loved most. I keep one of his MVP plaques and his picture in my pool room.

RIP my friend.
 
Scott Zimmerman from Montana was on my 8 man team in the big sky open in like 94 or 95 I think...38 yrs old...no drugs smoking or drinking...the only guy on out team that could say that....first matches were Friday night and we were playing...he ran out to put us up 6-2 in race to 9 and said he was gonna step outside cuz he was flush and feeling funny...bout one min later a guy from the opposing team yelled "hey ur guy is down on the sidewalk out here...within minutes the EMT's showed up...CPR was given he was taken to hospital and placed on life support...I believe the following Wednesday his family had the plug pulled....turns out his brain stem came disconnected...doctors told us this happens in like 1 in 3 million deaths or something crazy like that!!! RIP Scott!!!
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About fifteen years back at the U.S. Bar Table tourney in Reno we lost a player during his match. He made the nine ball to win the game and keeled over right there. Two of our players had CPR experience and went right to work on the guy and got him breathing again. That's when hotel security showed up and pushed them aside. They then proceeded to work on him until paramedics arrived ten minutes later. He was pronounced DOA at the hospital.

I found out later he had a history of heart ailments and a couple of previous attacks. The players at the tournament took up a collection for his family and we raised several hundred dollars to help pay for his funeral expenses.

It was the same year that Holyfield beat Tyson for the first time. The casino line was 10-1 up till the day of the fight. I bet 100 on Holyfield and everyone laughed at me so I bet him again for another hunny. After he won I had the last laugh. The line dropped to 5-1 right before the fight like someone knew something.
 
We were playing league 8 ball at the time and a Buddy of mine Fred Shapiro just made a great break and shot a few balls, perfect stop shot shape on the last 3 balls and the 8, leans down to take the shot and fell flat. CPR Immediatly and then was rushed to the ER, but he was gone. Was a great man, glad he came back to shooting pool after many years he gave the game up, he was getting his stroke back! RIP FRED miss ya buddy!!
 
A guy in Michigan (I think) died a couple of years ago right after bowling a 300 game.
 
A guy from my home town died right after catching a large King Salmon.

same kinda thing, going out doing what you love . . .
 
I just got back from broward county apa 9ball cities. Semifinals, fourth match and the Capt of the other team, mike, was playing a gal from our team. He said he couldn't breathe and the fell over. Another gal on my team was a nurse and immediately started CPR. Emt came 10 min later. Mike died. The room was full of people crying. I'm completely on tilt now. RIP mike.

Watching someone die really puts things into perspective.
 
branpureza said:
Lassiter didn't actually pass away by the pool table... it makes for a good story though.
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The wiki entry on Lassiter said his nephew found him next to the pool table, "where he had apparently been practicing."

How did he actually die then?
 
PoolBum said:
The wiki entry on Lassiter said his nephew found him next to the pool table, "where he had apparently been practicing."

How did he actually die then?
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If it's on "Wikipedia" then it must be true. :rolleyes:

No comment on where he died... next to the pool table sounds good to me.
 
jay helfert said:
It was the same year that Holyfield beat Tyson for the first time. The casino line was 10-1 up till the day of the fight. I bet 100 on Holyfield and everyone laughed at me so I bet him again for another hunny. After he won I had the last laugh. The line dropped to 5-1 right before the fight like someone knew something.
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They must have heard that you upped your bet, Jay.
 
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