19th Century Billiards Sleuthing from a Baseball Historian
Two photos. One mystery. The man with the crew cut on the right is Mike Tiernan, a famous 19th Century outfielder. But who is the bearded fellow on the left? Baseball historian Tom Shieber, the man behind the Baseball Researcher blog, recently stumbled across these two photos in the digital archives of the New York Public Library. Tiernan was identified as the man in both photos. According to...
From The Hamper to The Nice Chap: The History of Sharking
Pool, as is noted in this great Sports Illustrated article that I’ve just stumbled across, involves sustained waiting. “When one player is at the table, there is nothing his opponent can do except sit and hope that he misses,” wrote Robert Coughlan in the April 4, 1955 edition. “The player at the table, on the other hand, knowing that a miss will give his opponent a...
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