Trivia contest -- Minnesota Fats

pt109 said:
... It was The Shots of Artistic Billiards........by Bob Jewett...:bow-down:
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If it helps you to feel better, there are five shots in there I never made. The official shots have since changed partly because ivory is no longer the required ball material of the competition and that makes a lot of difference to some of the positions.
 
nick serdula said:
Or the real Fats that was a monster player sued by fats for using the name that fats stole from him? I obviously haven't seen the book. The real Fats was the player of the two.
Nick :)
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No, I mean the other one. :p
Another item I saw along the way: the birth name of the original Minnesota Fats, by which I mean Walter Tevis' character in the book The Hustler (and also, I suppose, the movie). I had never thought about him having a real name. Maybe I saw it at one time reading The Hustler or the short story but it didn't register.
 
Bob Jewett said:
If it helps you to feel better, there are five shots in there I never made. The official shots have since changed partly because ivory is no longer the required ball material of the competition and that makes a lot of difference to some of the positions.
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Well, I didn't have the excuse of not having the right equipment....
....Joe Burns of Dayton let me use a good set of ivory billiard balls.

..they made the table play a length faster

ps
Oh, and sorry to end the contest.....November 08, 1963
 
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I'm not sure but I'll bet Fats could talk for two hours nonstop about how and when he got his social security number.
 
In researching for the answer, I came across a really cool read for $9.99 that you can download called "Wanderon." ---> HERE

Evelyn and Minnesota Fats in 1962. There's Minnesota Fats' Derringer. :eek:
 

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The plot thickens, and I'm getting close. Just found this little nugget:
 

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JAM said:
Hee-hee. ;)

I guess I will amend my earlier guess of "1964" to include amonth. September 12, 1964. :)
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Hmmm.... I think we may have to limit the number of times the contestants can change their minds. New rule: everyone gets two guesses max, but anyone who has already guessed gets one more try.

Fats' SSN application form has a number that has been hand written (last four digits -- I think each office got a pool of consecutive numbers). That number is different from the number I saw quoted above, but only in the last digit.

Jennie, your latest guess is correct within four months, but not as close as a previous guess.
 
Bob Jewett said:
Hmmm.... I think we may have to limit the number of times the contestants can change their minds. New rule: everyone gets two guesses max, but anyone who has already guessed gets one more try.

Fats' SSN application form has a number that has been hand written (last four digits -- I think each office got a pool of consecutive numbers). That number is different from the number I saw quoted above, but only in the last digit.

Jennie, your latest guess is correct within four months, but not as close as a previous guess.
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My first guess was only the year: 1964. Then I saw that people were inserting the month and day, so that is when I made a second guess of September 12, 1964.

You've given a pretty good hint, however, since my date is 4 months off. :grin-square:

Since I'm out of the running now, knowing I am 4 months off, I'll give a better tip to those still in the running: 4 months before September 12, 1964, is May 1964; and 4 monthws after September 12, 1964 is January 1965. :D

I deliberately did not insert the day of the month in my hint, leaving that for prospective winners. :wink:
 
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