I never met Eddie Taylor. The closest I came was around 1990 when me and Joe Macnamara went to Shreveport. I dropped Joe off at the pool hall and I went to Louisiana Downs. Later Joe told me, "You just missed Eddie Taylor". I asked him for details and he said Eddie only hit a few balls, but was still banking 'em in at 100 mph. I enjoyed reading about Eddie on onepocket.org, where Steve Booth has many interviews with past champions.
I like this little bit from Eddie Taylor (links follow): (on bank pool)
The last time I played him (Charlie Jones) he came in to the Phoenix Hotel and said, 'Come on, I'll play you for fifty a game', and I was flat broke from the racetrack. I said, 'Charlie, there's nobody here to put up the money, they're all at the track.' Only Don Decoy was there, and Joe Cremins from Cincinnati and the guy on the cashier's desk. Don Decoy probably had seven or eight hundred dollars in his pocket, but he wouldn't even stake himself if it was over twenty dollars a game -- he'd get staked and then never miss a ball. I knew there was no need of asking him. So Don Decoy comes over to me and says 'I'll let you play him a hundred dollars worth at twenty-five a game.' I liked to have fainted and so did Joe! So I told Charlie, 'I've got a hundred dollars, Charlie, if you want to play some for twenty-five a game.' And he says, 'Okay, come on Eddie.' I told him that as soon as the guys come in from the track we can play for whatever.
Anyhow, I won the first game and he said 'Bet you fifty.' Of course everybody put up back then, so I said, 'Get it up.' Don Decoy didn't even fall off his chair; it's a miracle that he didn't. We went on and played thirteen games and I won twelve of them, and Charlie banked eight and out the game he won.
When we got up to the room, I had won $525, and I said to Don, 'Joe's broke, lets give him this twenty-five.' He didn't really want to but I gave it to him anyhow. Then Joe says to me, 'You know Eddie, in those thirteen games you missed one ball that you shot at in thirteen games.' I said, 'Oh, man, come on, I was in a trance.' And Don Decoy spoke up and said, 'That's right Eddie, you missed one ball in thirteen games - that you shot at.' That was in the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky and that had to be about 1947.
http://www.onepocket.org/EddieTaylorInterview.htm
http://www.onepocket.org/EddieTaylorPart2.htm
Wilt came along soon after in the 60's. He could also play today, but he wouldn't average 50 points a game. Maybe only 30. 
! Buddy knew how to wear his man down, and he usually did whether it took hours or days.
