Pool time travel
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I'd like to see the best of Worst.
It's good thing you gave me a bad rack. We could still be there-you racking and watching.
Damn right Freddie!
I always thought Babe didnt get the recognition some of the other old timers did.
The first person I ever took lessons from was Mr. Jimmy Caras at Drexeline billiards about 20 years ago! He talked to me many times about Cranfield because I was also a lefty like Babe. Mr Caras was such a cool dude! I dont know how he put up with me asking him to teach me 9ball when he ALWAYS knew 14.1 was the game to learn!!
Funny fact is Corey D. had lessons right after mine....Jimmy would always tell me to sit and watch the next lesson after mine....said this kid will be world champ one day!.....humbling at best!!
G.
Lot of matches I would have liked to see.
Here's one of them....
Weenie Beenies....sometime in the 60's
King James Rempe was the big news...started winning tournaments as a
teenager.
There was another player there, a little younger, who was a good bar player
and not bad on a 9-foot...mostly a money player.
Somehow a match was proposed and people made James the favorite.
An old friend of mine, Pittsburgh John, decided to go against them and bet
all his money on the new guy....he figured the kid was more used to action
than Rempe.
John took a big win that day.....
...and Buddy Hall would go on from that win to eventually giving world
champions the 8.
Now who would not have wanted to see the Rifleman making his bones?
Here's one of them....
Weenie Beenies....sometime in the 60's
King James Rempe was the big news...started winning tournaments as a
teenager.
There was another player there, a little younger, who was a good bar player
and not bad on a 9-foot...mostly a money player.
Somehow a match was proposed and people made James the favorite.
An old friend of mine, Pittsburgh John, decided to go against them and bet
all his money on the new guy....he figured the kid was more used to action
than Rempe.
John took a big win that day.....
...and Buddy Hall would go on from that win to eventually giving world
champions the 8.
Now who would not have wanted to see the Rifleman making his bones?
Something tells me you saw plenty....maybe not these matches but others that were way-cool.
Cuebuddy thinks pt109 has been there.
While Johnson City, or The Rack or 7-11 in NY would be great to be a fly on the wall...Mosconi in his prime.
I would want to see McCready in his prime, or Larry Liscotti gambling for High Stakes and woofing and entertaining the crowd...I'd love to see some of the greats but real hustlers plying there craft is far more interesting to me
I would want to see McCready in his prime, or Larry Liscotti gambling for High Stakes and woofing and entertaining the crowd...I'd love to see some of the greats but real hustlers plying there craft is far more interesting to me