by radyer | Dec 28, 2024 | Featured
Back in 1970 Minnesota Fats was in Johnston City, Illinois making games with Richie Florence, a young player then considered one of America’s best. Florence was flush with cash from a recent score in Alabama. He would have been about 25 years old. Fats was pushing 60....
by radyer | Dec 21, 2024 | 1980s Pool, 1990s Pool, 2000s Pool, Hall of Fame, Industry History, Mike Panozzo, Pool News
Mike Panozzo was inducted into the BCA Hall of Fame on Nov. 31, under the Meritorious Service category. He has devoted the entirety of his 40-plus year to chronicling and promoting American pocket billiards. ________________________________________________ Editors...
by radyer | Jun 5, 2024 | 1960s Pool, Harold Worst
Harold Worst was one of very few champions to have successfully made the leap from three-cushion to pocket billiards. ________________________________________________ By R.A. Dyer In 1954, on a Monday night, the then-dictator of Argentina sat down to a fine dinner....
by radyer | May 27, 2024 | 1940s Pool, Historic Players, Historical Notes, Wimpy Lassiter
Pool legend Wimpy Lassiter divided much of his World War II service on three Coast Guard cutters operating from Norfolk, Virginia. By then the Navy had subsumed the Coast Guard for the war effort and Lassiter’s cutters — designated CG 83511, CG 74307, CG 74306...
by radyer | May 17, 2024 | Hall of Fame
This year’s BCA inductees includes a five-time U.S. Open winner, the publisher of Billiards Digest, and an esteemed promoter. ________________________________________________ Longmont, Colo., May 17, 2024 – The Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame will...
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