People try to break records during the normal playing of the games. When Bob Beamon broke the long jump record by almost 2 feet in 68, no one set up a pit and took a stab at it every day.Nobody had down the middle fast balls pitched at them every day at Yankee Stadium either til one was hit out of the Park.
If John breaks the record, it will certainly be an achievement but definitely will have an asterisk.
I guess that makes those records more formidable than Mosconi's then.
You could have broken Beamon's record on your pit but nobody is going to recognize it. Certainly not the Guinness .
The home run distance record is a record for an official game . Are we even going to argue nobody in batting practice hit it farther ? Have you ever heard of a batting practice home run record ? Exactly. They don't even recognize spring training home run distance record . If they did, you'd have a few of them claiming they hit some 600+ footers in the desert .
Pool, damn if you and damn if you don't.
Btw, whose record did Mosconi break ?