Because a sport without history is a sport without consequence.
Greatest Of All Time? You Decide! Take the Pool History Poll
Who was the greatest nine-ball player ever? The greatest one-pocket player? Greatest women’s player? Greatest action player. We’re polling our informed readers to get a gauge on who they believe was the greatest player ever in various disciplines. Submit your poll responses here. We’ll report the results later and send a free gift to one of the respondents, selected at random.
Greatest Of All Time? You Decide! Take the Pool History Poll
Who was the greatest nine-ball player ever? The greatest one-pocket player? Greatest women's player? Greatest action player. We're polling our informed readers to get a gauge on who they believe was the greatest player ever in various disciplines. Submit your poll...
Welcome to PoolHistory.com
Historic matches. Famous pool players. Dates and stats. Find all that and more at poolhistory.com, the pool and billiards history website curated by R.A. Dyer. Click through for articles about world champions Willie Mosconi and Ralph Greenleaf, or read details about big-time matchups with Minnesota Fats and Jersey Red. Dyer, author of the critically-acclaimed books Hustler Days and The Hustler and the Champ, has spent the last three decades writing about pool and pool history. He’s also the author of the long-running Untold Stories column in Billiards Digest.
Strategic Thinking: How Fats Delivered a Quiet Thrashing
Some of the greatest strategic moves in getting pool action have been executed by oafs.
Billiards Digest editor Mike Panozzo Joins BCA Hall of Fame
The Billiards Digest editor was inducted in 2024 under the Meritorious Service category.
The Amazing Life & Untimely Death of Pool Great Harold Worst
Harold Worst was one of few champions to excel at both three-cushion to pocket billiards.
Wimpy Lassiter’s World War II Coast Guard records
The pool hustler’s time of Coast Guard service was three years, 10 months and 7 days.
German Champions Erich Hagenlocher and Dieter Müller
Ralph Eckert, Team Europe captain at the Mosconi Cup, tells the story of two German pool champs.
Van Boening, Griffin, Panozzo Elected to BCA Hall of Fame
Van Boening, Mike Panozzo and the late Mark Griffin have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
