Author: Michael PhelanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Billiards
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The American Billiard Record
Author: Michael PhelanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Billiards
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Billiards, Revised and Updated
Author: Billiards Congress of AmericaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461749921
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Here in a single, compact handbook are all the rules for the myriad forms of pocket billiards. Billiards: The Official Rules and Records Book is complete with detailed instructions on how to play everything from Basic Pocket Billiards to Cut-Throat, together with the rules for tournament games such as Nine Ball and Rotation, and Snooker and Carom games. These are the official rules of billiards from the Billiard Congress of America, the governing body of professional billiards in the United States. A very helpful chapter for the beginner includes professional tips on basic techniques and strategies. Also included are a glossary of billiard terms and a summary of BCA billiards champions.
Billiards
Author: Dawn MeurinPublisher: SP Books
ISBN: 9781561712106
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Whether you want to play on the pro tour or just have some fun with America's fastest indoor sport, this book is for you. It gives you: All the rules, as compiled by the experts who play and win by them; Tips for keeping your game on cue; A pocket history of the game and its greats.
Standard American Billiard Tables
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385503051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Hustler & The Champ
Author: R. A. DyerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461749018
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
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.
The American Artisan and Hardware Record
Author: The American Bibliopolist
Author: Sporting and Athletic Records
Author: Hubert Morgan BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Athletics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Hustlers, Beats, and Others [sound Recording]
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Author: Ned PolskyPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202366685
Category : Beats (Persons)
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Ranging from pool hustling to pornography, this book analyzes deviant branches of American life, dispels misconceptions about them, and throws new light on sociological theory and method. Each chapter radically dissents from one or more mainstream opinions about deviance. The first chapter examines the alleged causes for the decline of American poolrooms and finds them wanting, traces the rise and fall of poolrooms to historical changes in America's social structure, and cogently dissects the recent poolroom revival. The second chapter, reports a field study of a deviant occupation, pool hustling, describing the hustler's work situation and career from recruitment to retirement. In revealing how pool hustlers, although dedicated wholly to a vocation that merely breaks unenforced gambling laws, frequently supplement their income by means of outright felonies, the author develops a new theory of "crime as moonlighting." The third chapter sharply criticizes our criminology textbooks for avoiding the study of uncaught adult criminals in their natural environments. It demonstrates such research to be both necessary and practical with career felons as well as moonlighters. The author describes field techniques he has used with career felons, offers new findings gleaned by means of these techniques, and answers moral objections to such research. The forth chapter presents the first genuinely empirical study of the beat delinquent sub-culture, in which the author corrects some journalistic views such as that most beats are exhibitionists and some sociological ones such as that "retreatist" drug-users can meet neither legitimate nor criminal success norms. The final chapter, on the sociology of pornography, holds that the courts are wrong to claim that naturalistic erotic art is non-pornographic, and wronger still to claim that hard-core pornography is, in Mr. Justice Brennan's words, "utterly without redeeming social importance."The author's unusual blend of"--Provided by publisher.
Author: James Kelly