PrePub book numbers #50, and #50 thru #100 are still available for preorders of my upcoming book, The Encyclopedia of Pool Hustlers.
(Sorry, somebody already put in a request for #69)
Here is another tid-bit excerpt from the book that I posted earlier on Onepocket.org.
California John McCue
Detroit, MI - Upper level short-stop - Banks, One-pocket and Nine-ball
Detroit’s unlikely named, California John McCue and I used to play on sight. I really liked playing with him, even though he always tried to squeeze a little bit the best of it out of me. Our game usually wound up with me spotting him 9 to 8, or 8 to 7 in Banks, and One-pocket. 8 to 7 Banks was tough, but I once took a brutal thrashing from John at The Rack after giving him 8 to 7 playing One-pocket when I had the “mixture” all wrong. Anybody who thinks that I wasn’t long winded should know we played for a couple of days, and that McCue came out 30 games ahead of me for $50 a game. Not so unusual, if the shit aint working you’re feeling too amped up to quit until you are broke. It was my first, and last dance with the speed pill, Preludin. Dope is often the devil in disguise
I played him when I was straight and clean a few days later, and much to my chagrin, he quit loser after only 4 games.
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