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Author : Willie Mosconi
Release : 1948-12
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 797/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Willie Mosconi on Pocket Billiards by : Willie Mosconi
Download or read book Willie Mosconi on Pocket Billiards written by Willie Mosconi. This book was released on 1948-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willie Mosconi
Release : 1959
Genre : Billiards
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Book Synopsis Willie Mosconi on Pocket Billiards by : Willie Mosconi
Download or read book Willie Mosconi on Pocket Billiards written by Willie Mosconi. This book was released on 1959. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willie Mosconi
Release : 1995
Genre : Games & Activities
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 270/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Willie Mosconi's Winning Pocket Billiards for Beginners and Advanced Players, with a Section on Trick Shots by : Willie Mosconi
Download or read book Willie Mosconi's Winning Pocket Billiards for Beginners and Advanced Players, with a Section on Trick Shots written by Willie Mosconi. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the execution of the necessary shots that both beginners and advanced players need to win games, this guide also shares the secrets behind seemingly impossible trick shots. By following the instructions illustrated in more than 100 photos and diagrams, players of any level can learn the skills needed to be serious contenders.
Author : Willie Mosconi
Release : 2015-09-22
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 267/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Willie's Game by : Willie Mosconi
Download or read book Willie's Game written by Willie Mosconi. This book was released on 2015-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “fascinating” memoir by America’s greatest professional billiards player, a child prodigy in the pool halls of the 1930s who became a world champion (Library Journal). Willie Mosconi’s father never wanted him to play billiards. At night, the boy would lie awake listening to the clatter of balls downstairs in the family pool hall, and when his father wasn’t around, he would climb onto an apple crate to practice his shots. When his dad started locking up the balls and cue, young Willie improvised with potatoes and a broom handle. By the time he was 7 years old, he was good enough to play against Ralph Greenleaf in a match billed as “The Child Prodigy vs. The World Champion.” It was the start of a magnificent career that would include an unprecedented 15 world championships and the record for most consecutive balls run without a miss: 526. Nicknamed “Mr. Pocket Billiards,” Mosconi was instrumental in popularizing pool in America, serving as a consultant for iconic films such as The Hustler and The Color of Money and facing off against the famed hustler Minnesota Fats in 2 celebrated matches. Cowritten with journalist Stanley Cohen, Willie’s Game is the colorful, captivating autobiography of an illustrious champion who lifted his sport to new heights and played by one simple rule: If you don’t miss, you don’t have to worry about anything else.
Author : R. A. Dyer
Release : 2007-10-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 018/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hustler & The Champ by : R. A. Dyer
Download or read book Hustler & The Champ written by R. A. Dyer. This book was released on 2007-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Pulitzer Prize nominated, Positively Fifth Street, here is a riveting account of a high stakes shoot-out between pool’s two most famous personalities. It was Valentine’s Day, 1978, and Howard Cosell was hosting the long-awaited show-down between the best-ever tournament player, Willie Mosconi, and the game’s most famous hustler, Minnesota Fats. This was The Great Pool Shoot-Out, one of the most highly rated televised sporting events of the year, exceeding even World Series games and basketball championships. R.A. Dyer, author of the best-selling Hustler Days, which recounts the rise of pool during the 1960s, writes of the acrid, but mutually beneficial rivalry between Fats and Mosconi, and how the televised shoot-outs came to embody that rivalry, which was nothing less than a bitter rift within the soul of American pocket billiards. Fats and Mosconi were born the same year, but were vastly different characters: one stood for artistry, the other for show business; one brought dignity to pool, the other made it fun. They are without a doubt the two most important players ever to hold a cue. This is the ultimate tale of American sportsmanship. R.A. Dyer is a columnist for Billiards Digest, and lives in Austin, Texas.
