Because a sport without history is a sport without consequence.
Cue Ball Kelly: Witness to the 20th Century’s Greatest Players
The colorful Carl “Cue Ball Kelly” Zingale stood witness to much of 20th Century pool history, including matches featuring legendary players Greenleaf, Mosconi, Lassiter, Mizerak and others. “Pool players are all nuts, and pool halls are like houses for crazy people,” he once observed. Read Sam Korte’s account of this legendary friend of pool.
Cue Ball Kelly: Witness to the 20th Century’s Greatest Players
The colorful Carl "Cue Ball Kelly" Zingale stood witness to much of 20th Century pool history, including matches featuring some of its greatest players like Greenleaf, Mosconi, Lassiter and others. ________________________________________________ By Sam Korte EDITOR'S...
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.
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.
The Club of Forgotten Champions: Germany’s Hugo Kerkau
Ralph Eckert, captain Mosconi Cup Team Europe, tells the story of German champ Hugo Kerkau.
From Caroms To Chaos: The Story of Calvin Demarest
Calvin Demarest’s descent from champion to asylum marks one of pool’s most shocking falls.
