Word: mosconi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, though, the Bensinger regulars put aside their cards and pool cues to crowd into the twin grandstands of the exhibition arena and watch dapper Willie Mosconi, 41, take on putty-nosed Joe Procita, 56, for the world's championship in pocket billiards, better known as pool...
...player since he began to hang around his father's South Philadelphia pool parlor at the age of six. Willie Mosconi is a veteran of that rowdy era, but now he needs none of its tricks. His mechanical perfection is enough, and it earns him at least $10,000 a year in exhibitions. Last week it won him another world championship by the impressive score...
...Francisco, Willie Mosconi successfully defended his world pocket-billiard championship for the eleventh time in twelve years by beating Luther Lassiter, 150-33, in the title match. Mosconi's reward...