Yeah, and when I read it the first time way back when, I knew it was crap then too.

. SO DID EVYONE FROM THE ROOM!!!
"MUST HAVE BEEN 12 YEARS OLD"?!?!" HAHAHAHA!
He hadn't even walked into the pool room at 12. Let alone gone to any tournaments to be seen by anyone or been good enough to actually impress anyone.
Drexeline Billiards didn't even OPEN till the spring of 1989, and Corey would have been 11 at the time of it opening. He wouldn't have been 12 till that fall.
Believe me, he WASN'T there on day 1. His mom didn't bring him there till years later.
Who knows. Maybe the Ohio guys wanted to adopt "the legend" of Corey Deuel for themselves.
I mean, seriously. Take a good long look at the newspaper clipping photo.
How old do YOU thinks he looks there?
Cause if he looked like that at 15...

LOL.
But let's not let distortions be accepted as fact, cause the part about his age in the story, is just a total load of bull. A huge pile of it.
So basically what is being said in the article is that he never went to high school in PA.
HAHA.
I dunno about Ohio, but the minimum age someone can drop out of school in the state of PA, is 16 and that's WITH a parents signature.
So what that article is basically saying, is that, he was allowed special circumstances to drop out of school, and to leave his moms side, to be adopted by Dee's family.
At 13 no less. BECAUSE OF POOL.
Do you have any idea exactly how ridiculous that sounds?
Especially since he hadn't even picked up a cue at that age?
I mean, based on your responses, I can gather that Ohio likes to claim him for their own.
That's fine and dandy, but distortions of the truth are still distortions.
Did Corey eventually leave and transplant to Ohio? Yes. Believe me, no one is disputing that.
But to say that he did it at 13, is one of the biggest distortions there is.
It's easy to understand why people might think he was younger. People took one look at him and got his age wrong all the time.
He didn't sprouts till like 16, and before that, he was SMALL.
But for someone like Dee to say that is just a total embellishment and distortion of the truth. Why? Only Dee can answer that.
ANYONE who knew Corey from when he started playing pool can call bull on the age in the story.
Heck, anyone with any math skills can call bull.
But that's ok.
I'm not trying to change your mind.
You keep on believing what you want to believe. Doesn't stop it from being totally 100% wrong.
