Book Description
Contains information on billiards, pool, snooker and all associated games with anecdotes.
Author : Michael Ian Shamos
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,85 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Billiards
ISBN : 9781558212190
Contains information on billiards, pool, snooker and all associated games with anecdotes.
Author : Victor Stein
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780615170923
This award winning publication has established itself as the most authoritative and historical book ever written on the game of billiards. This new third edition has been completely revised with over 350 new pages and 500 new images. Many from the Encyclopedia's own archive. Expanded to 640 pages and featuring new sections on billiard memorabilia, current cue makers, world class cue collections, and the "Beauty of The Cue" - a stunning pictorial containing over 500 cues over made over the last 40 years. The new third edition goes further in illuminating the journey that started 20 years ago by Stein and Rubino, documenting the fascinating story of Billiards.
Author : Michael Ian Shamos
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN :
The most comprehensive book on the games played by forty million Americans. (SEE QUOTE.)
Author : David G. Alciatore
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,77 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781402714283
More than 80 principles of the game, presented with 250-plus precisely scaled illustrations and photographs, offer players of all levels a thorough overview of the fundamentals of 8-ball and 9-ball, including grip and stance, basic shots, position play and strategy, bank and kick shots, and advanced techniques such as carom and jump shots.
Author : Mike Shamos
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780517208694
A complete reference guide to the rules, equipment, and terminology of billiards and all associated cue games.
Author : R. A. Dyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1461749018
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.
Author : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :
Welcome to Byrne's Wonderful World of Pool and Billiards, a medley of instruction and lore from the best-selling authority on billiards technique. Here, clearly explained and illustrated, are tips on improving your pool game ("Three-Shot Planning"), unusual shots, technique in three-cushion billiards ("Handling Tough Leaves", "Kilgore's Opposite 3 System"), and clarification of the games people play (five pins, snooker, box billiards). In his inimitable style, Robert Byrne also entertains with stories, sage advice ("How to Cope with Sore Losers"), and profiles of top players - plus one of an infamous poseur.
Author : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780156005548
The definitive work on pool and billiards (National Billiard News) by champion player Robert Byrne Now updated throughout and expanded with new material on strategy in eight- and nine-ball, trick shots, and billiard memorabilia, Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards is the classic guide to cue games complete with detailed diagrams and photographs to help improve play at every level."
Author : Michael Ian Shamos
Publisher : Artisan Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Billiard players
ISBN : 9781885183958
A photographic record of the game of pool, with essays that profile some of the hustlers and stars of the sport.
Author : Freddy Bentivegna
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781490475844
8.5 x 11, 386 pages large 12 point fonts. An informed peek at the netherworld of pool hustling, with over 300 photos. A rowdy assortment of anecdotes, insights, encounters, and esoteric knowledge of the legendary pool hustlers of the second half of the 20th century. This book is composed of the comprehensive extracts from the personal experiences of the life-long, fellow hustler, Freddy the Beard Bentivegna, and with running commentary from many of the constituents themselves.