by Pool History Guest Contributor | Apr 2, 2024 | 1930s Pool, 1950s Pool, Eufaula Kid, Historic Players, Marshall Carpenter, Ralph Greenleaf
Womack already was a formidable One Pocket player when Greenleaf appeared in Eufaula in 1936. ________________________________________________ By Brandon Scott King Billiards Digest columnist George Fels once said that in the era of so-called “Rebel traps” tables...
by Pool History Guest Contributor | Nov 22, 2023 | 1920s Pool, Emmett Blankenship, Historic Players, Ralph Greenleaf, Tournaments
Emmett Blankenship won the World Title on his first attempt in 1916. ________________________________________________ EDITOR’S NOTE: In this article, adapted from content from an upcoming book, guest contributor Brandon Scott King (also known as Rabbi Hippie)...
by Pool History Guest Contributor | Oct 24, 2020 | 1930s Pool, Historic Players, Ralph Greenleaf, Tom Fox
The story of Greenleaf’s Widow, the Princess Nai Tai Tai EDITORS NOTE: My friend Karen Fox, a long-time journalist and editor, recently came across an article she wrote more than 50 years ago about Amelia Parker, a woman known to pool history fans as the famous...
by radyer | Dec 5, 2019 | 1950s Pool, Jansco Brothers, Ralph Greenleaf, Tom Fox
The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies, by Tom Fox. My long-time friend Karen Fox recently sent me this lovely photo, above, of Amelia Greenleaf, the then-widow of billiard champion Ralph Greenleaf, chatting with Karen’s late husband, Tom Fox. Greenleaf is...
by radyer | Feb 2, 2019 | 1920s Pool, Ralph Greenleaf, Tournaments
In January, 1927, Erwin Rudolf met Ralph Greenleaf in New York City to determine the nation’s next pocket billiards champion. Greenleaf had held the title nearly uninterrupted for the previous eight years, having relinquished it only once (in 1925) to Frank Taberski....
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