What table is THIS???
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That looks like a Sport King to me.
Popularly used in military bases, senior centers and bowling alleys.
Popularly used in military bases, senior centers and bowling alleys.
This is an excellent pool table, better than any modern home style table. It looks like it just needs a good cleaning up, maybe re-stain the rails with something. A little Olde English might cover up some of those marks.
What can be seen looks pretty good. The pocket pics are too dark to see anything. The metal all seems nicely polished. If you can go inspect it then check the following things
1. look at the pockets for uniformity
2. check to see if the rail rubber still has spring and plays fair (if table is assembled)
3. check underneath for any problems like broken slate or missing rail bolts
4. If the table is disassembled check where the cloth staples under the rails to see if the table has a few more recovers left in it.
1. look at the pockets for uniformity
2. check to see if the rail rubber still has spring and plays fair (if table is assembled)
3. check underneath for any problems like broken slate or missing rail bolts
4. If the table is disassembled check where the cloth staples under the rails to see if the table has a few more recovers left in it.
Looking at getting a table, I found this one local just wondering if its anyone know what it is? I know its a Brunswick but thats it, the seller says its vintage but I don't know.
Thanks for any help!!!
I am sure it is an older Sport king, Sportking. They made a later model with Formica rails and kind of crappy side panels. That one looks like wood. I had one in my house when I was a kid. The pockets were huge if I remember right. I later replaced it with a Gold Crown that I still have. I have had that table like 40 years. I don't ever remember not owning a pool table.
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I have one of these for sale too, in Iowa. It's been a great table, but I've moved and have no room in my new place.
The pockets on mine are not huge, they have somewhat deep shelves and balls have to be hit good to go in.
First $500 takes it (you disassemble and haul). I paid more than twice that for it 10 years ago, but am now just looking to get a little something out of it before the house sells.
PM me if interested.
The pockets on mine are not huge, they have somewhat deep shelves and balls have to be hit good to go in.
First $500 takes it (you disassemble and haul). I paid more than twice that for it 10 years ago, but am now just looking to get a little something out of it before the house sells.
PM me if interested.
No doubt . . .
Sport King . . . here's mine after I restored it . . . not all original but close. I had to fabricate the side aprons and buy new corner cans. Still available from Ken Nash here in the forums. Mine is probably a 61 or 62 . . . yours is probably mid-to-late 50's. It will be awesome if you clean it up and restore it. A lot of table for a little money . . . great player.
Sport King . . . here's mine after I restored it . . . not all original but close. I had to fabricate the side aprons and buy new corner cans. Still available from Ken Nash here in the forums. Mine is probably a 61 or 62 . . . yours is probably mid-to-late 50's. It will be awesome if you clean it up and restore it. A lot of table for a little money . . . great player.
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That is NOT too high for that table. An old Sport King with wood rails! This is not the formica table. Classic table and built like a tank. My guess is that's a 1954-55 table because that's when they used that logo. Try to get it down to 800, but 1000 is in the ball park.
I had one in my house for years. Ernesto reworked it and it played great. He doubled shimmed the pockets, down to 4.25" and it was a tough box to play on. Many great players had fun gambling on that table with each other. Believe it or not, it is heavier than a Gold Crown, by about 75 pounds. I sold it when I moved for $1,500 and I wish I had kept it. I love my Diamond but the Sport King was a great table to play on.
I grew up playing on the over sized eight footers in Dayton and surrounding areas. That was almost all you saw in Midwest poolrooms back then. In the condition I see in the photos, with the marks and scratches on the rails and aprons, I would bargain with the seller also. Mine was pristine (came out of s Senior Citizen Center) and I paid $1,200 for it. $1,000 is not a bad price if the slate and frame are all good. Check the level carefully as sometimes the frame can warp slightly. That is not an easy fix. I'd ask where the table came from, what's it's history?
If everything is good on this table, I like it just as much as a Gold Crown. The Sport King was the lower priced commercial table by Brunswick at the time (40's and 50's). The high end model was the Anniversary. Similar to the Gold Crown and the Medalist.
Agreed . . .
$800 - $900 would be a very fair price. The Sport King NEW in 1958 was under $550!!!
I put a lot of love and sweat in my restore - its an 8 1/2 footer oversize tournament model. . . Like Jay said these were the table you played on when you were a kid in the Midwest. They were in all the pool halls, bowling alleys, and Uncle Sam bought tons of 'em for rec centers on Army bases.
I paid $1050 for mine in '2005, but I got a new set of Aramith TV balls and two nice cues with a rack . . . then I stripped all woods, re-stained, polyurethaned, bought SS corner cans (new $380 for set), fabricated aprons ($70 in red oak, $15 custom stain) etc. So I was in it about $1,500 without a re-cover. BUT, you have a table built like a tank . . . with a lot of history.
Mosconi set his 526 straight pool record run on a Sport King 8' footer at an exhibition in Ohio!
I'd love to have a Gold Crown, but my son will have my pool table one day, and its still a hell of a table . . . we've enjoyed a lot of father/son "death" matches on it. (He still can't beat the old man!)
$800 - $900 would be a very fair price. The Sport King NEW in 1958 was under $550!!!
I put a lot of love and sweat in my restore - its an 8 1/2 footer oversize tournament model. . . Like Jay said these were the table you played on when you were a kid in the Midwest. They were in all the pool halls, bowling alleys, and Uncle Sam bought tons of 'em for rec centers on Army bases.
I paid $1050 for mine in '2005, but I got a new set of Aramith TV balls and two nice cues with a rack . . . then I stripped all woods, re-stained, polyurethaned, bought SS corner cans (new $380 for set), fabricated aprons ($70 in red oak, $15 custom stain) etc. So I was in it about $1,500 without a re-cover. BUT, you have a table built like a tank . . . with a lot of history.
Mosconi set his 526 straight pool record run on a Sport King 8' footer at an exhibition in Ohio!
I'd love to have a Gold Crown, but my son will have my pool table one day, and its still a hell of a table . . . we've enjoyed a lot of father/son "death" matches on it. (He still can't beat the old man!)
Hair line crack could mean anything but would need further investigating. The missing rail bolt usually mean at some point a bolt was broken off and not properly repaired.