Sports Illustrated pool articles

[Bob Callahan]

Sports Illustrated has had some great pool articles in the past.

This is my all-time favorite:

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1073280/index.htm

For more, go here:

http://www.poolarticlessportsillustrated.blogspot.com/

 

[billiardshot]

Bob Callahan, if you would like a copy of that issue. I will sell you one for $12.00 [shipment cost included in price].

 

[The Schwartz]

Some good reading there! Work be damned, I'm reading about pool.

 

[Bob Callahan]

Bob Callahan, if you would like a copy of that issue. I will sell you one for $12.00 [shipment cost included in price].

That's a great offer, and a very fair price for a collector's issue, but I'm afraid I'm in the process of going all digital with my own collection of too many reference books and magazines. Climbing rocks and shooting pool lots again have made me want to be very mobile.

Here's the digital version of that issue:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/edb/reader.html?magID=SI&issueDate=19611204&mode=reader_vault

Thanks again for the offer, though.

 

[ChazL]

Bob, thanks for posting these links...

Some very enjoyable reading in these articles.

Fascinating to realize that the elite players of the '60's were saying that there was no money in the pro game even then-- supposedly at the height of pool's post-war boom with the release of the movie The Hustler. They also complained that all of the "pool detectives" hanging about made it impossible to make any real money by going on the road.

Some things never change!