You just thought about it.
Why are there so few black pro players..?
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We used to run into Kenny Brisbon and his teams out of Detroit quite a bit. He was an absolute class act! Loved seeing him at tourneys. He was the model "amateur" player and he collected quite a few scalps of professional players over the years. Sadly, he passed away a couple of years ago.
Maybe the closing of Boys n Girls Club where kids played Pool is reason less minority Kids in USA grt to play Pool.
Know in Phoenix the Boys n Girls Clubs got rid of Pool tables.
Kids had little intrest in Pool, they noted to Video games.
Know in Phoenix the Boys n Girls Clubs got rid of Pool tables.
Kids had little intrest in Pool, they noted to Video games.
A persons post count on an Internet forum indicates how long they have been playing pool?
Not one.
To be fair, I actually answered your question. Good question.Dude....if you're not interested in my question, then simply ignore it.
Was it you that was donating cues for kids at a club? Still doing that?
I have a brand new cue I would like to give to a kid. Looking for a needy kid.
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why are there so few black people in the tejano night clubs??????
Nope that was 10 years plus ago, and those Boys and Girls Clubs put their Pool Tables in dumpster.
Think they even closed a couple of locations.
Money problems.
Growing up in LA in the 60's, the great action rooms were located in the inner city pool rooms. I played in all of them. As rent became an issue, these rooms began closing to the point where now there's maybe only one room left. But the same can be said for pool rooms in general. I visit my son in Columbia SC and there are no rooms in a predominantly black city. Why?? It's just not as popular as it once was.
of course it isnt. it is built around gambling. and few gamble at pool anymore so it stands to reason it falls off the map.
all the black regulars that ive ever seen all gambled at pool. as well as most in the poolrooms that hung out and played better.
turn poker into a fun game and see what happens to it.
all the black regulars that ive ever seen all gambled at pool. as well as most in the poolrooms that hung out and played better.
turn poker into a fun game and see what happens to it.
Left-handed Kevin had a longer speaking role than Strawberry. Strawberry is the street person who gives a clean urine to one of the characters because they were being tested, if memory serves me right. If you didn't know it was Strawberry, you'd miss it. I also loved Breaking Bad.
Here's a snipper from a December 2006 Washington Post article about Strawberry: Rarely entering official contests, he preferred after-hours matches against such major pool talent as Grady Mathews, Richie Florence and Bill Staton. He also was a favorite at private, invitation-only games filled with millionaires looking for gambling action."
Until the late 1960s, Black players were widely prohibited from professional tournaments. [Steve] Booth wrote that "even when the color barrier was finally broken, many of them, like Strawberry, still avoided making the switch to tournament play because frankly, they could make more money 'undercover.'"
Lorraine Rudolph, a club singer and the second of Brooks's three wives, said Brooks told her that he got his nickname as a child when he and friends stole their lunch from grocery stores. Assigned the drinks, he always took strawberry pop.
As a young man, he was a regular at pool halls near the Howard Theater. He learned a lot from players known only as "Napoleon" and "Mr. Perfect." Brooks did well at straight pool, but, as he liked to say, "you can make money playing nine-ball, but you can get rich playing one-pocket." He spent the next three years training himself before emerging as a dominant one-pocket player.
In his 73 years, Melvin "Strawberry" Brooks was many things -- an Army veteran, an operator of after-hours social clubs, a ladies man with at least nine children, an unpredictable but often loyal friend, a criminal twice jailed on drug-related charges, and a Muslim convert called Askia El Amin.
At his wake, Brooks was placed in a coffin with an unscrewed, custom-made pool cue worth thousands of dollars and a folded American flag.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...ol-player-goes-from-hustling-to-hall-of-fame/
Strawberry's Find-a-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17866554/melvin-"strawberry"-brooks
OnePocket.org Hall of Fame page for Strawberry: https://onepocket.org/StrawberryHOFpage.htm
Yep and a big part of it is called Sponsorship!
