willie mosconi on pocket billiards 1966 edition

WILLIE MOSCONI ON POCKET BILLIARDS 1966 EDITION PROFESSIONAL

The Mosconi family lived upstairs from the pool hall owned by Willie’s father, Joseph Mosconi. Mosconi set the world record of 526 consecutive balls in 1954, a mark that remained unbeaten for no less than six decades. Willie Mosconi, a benchmark and pool prodigyĭuring the 1940s and 1950s, the predominant modality of pocket billiards (pool) was 14.1 (Straight Pool), a specialty considered by those nostalgic for those times as the most difficult with respect to the predominant game today, which is Nine Ball. Mosconi pioneered numerous records, invented numerous trick shots, and helped popularize billiards as a sporting activity in his native country. Pocket Billiards” and he was quickly inducted into the Billiards Congress of America Hall of Fame (BCA Hall of Fame). For most of the 20th century, his name was synonymous with billiards in North America: he was nicknamed “Mr. Between the years 19, he won the 14.1 (Straight Pool) World Championship fifteen times.

WILLIE MOSCONI ON POCKET BILLIARDS 1966 EDITION PROFESSIONAL

If you're looking for new amazing secret info that for some reason people held back just to let you know here, good luck.William Joseph Mosconi (June 27th, 1913 – September 17th, 1993) was an american professional pool player born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. No-one is avoiding questions but it's silly to think that after so many years of info, you posting this question will have Mosconi rise up from the grave and give you the exact details without any doubts as to what went on.Īnd another one with some pocket info in there I don't think that your post will magically come up with new info that you can't find out already from the many years that people have been talking about the table and everything else that happened with it LOL Thank you - sincerely - for your help BTW and offering some information. My posted questions are NOT about 'the run', they are about the TABLE from the perspective of replicating it exactly to the run that evening. What those folks are doing is just repeating something they think they remember or think they are helping with when in reality they are just adding to the misinformation and even avoiding the questions asked. I have a pile of information from this forum regarding THAT RUN on such things as the affidavit that people quote saying there are 'more than 35' or even 'somewhat like 50' people that witnessed and proved the event. Let me put this another way - with one example. I must ask this - did you actually read the post that I MADE and the questions that I am asking for help on? This is exactly how and why many threads get off-topic so easily is because people seemingly think they are helping by reminding everyone to just 'do a search' or 'that topic has been covered' instead of just answering and helping the person asking. Thank you as well for letting me know that many threads already exist on the run I asked about. There are many other details surrounding that evening regarding all of the equipment in play that would be helpful if not extremely interesting (like the balls used) - so anything that anyone has to contribute in this thread will be greatly appreciated! The Brunswick billiard historian I asked could find no information since many records were destroyed years ago. What if we were to replicate that same pool table today? What was the true size? What were the pocket openings? If it was indeed a Brunswick table, which model of Brunswick table? Drop pocket or ball return? What color of cloth did it have? And so on.

What was recorded and written about back then points to the table being 'a Brunswick 4'x8' with 5.25 inch pockets' but that seems to be the end of the media coverage - historical or otherwise - regarding the equipment. The well documented and record-setting run at the East High Billiard Club in Springfield, OH is complete with the affidavit signed by 37 witnesses including his opponent Earl 'Jack' Bruney, but is missing details on the POOL TABLE they played on. After turning to a few sources that ultimately had no answers to my questions, I'd like to see if there are any AZB'ers that may be able to help in my quest for a few elusive facts regarding Willie Mosconi's run of 526 on the evening of March 19th, 1954 and more specifically the table specs.

Willie mosconi on pocket billiards 1966 edition