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Fully illustrated with hundreds of drawings depicting nearly three hundred and fifty mind-boggling trick shots, Byrnes Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards will teach you everything from the basic butterfly formation to the most difficult and impressive shots. Robert Byrne has scoured classic sources from the past two hundred years as well as his own personal experience and contacts to bring you the most comprehensive book on the subject. Historical anecdotes and context about the origin of each shot accompany the explanations, making for fascinating reading for anyonefrom the most inexperienced amateur to the most seasoned expert.
Whatever your skills and strengths, pool and billiards master Byrne will teach you the best in trick shots. In hardcover for the first time in nearly thirty years, topics include:
Classic shots and variations
The wisdom of the ancients, inner secrets, and Byrnes personal favorites
Novelty shots and easy-to-do tricks
Stymies, puzzles, and clusters
Tube and jump shots
Stroke, time, and kiss shots
Draw, follow, and mass shots
Showstoppers and more!
Byrnes Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards is the definitive guide to the best trick shots that the worlds masters have to offer.
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Copyright 1982, 2012 by Robert Byrne
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ISBN: 978-1-61608-538-4
Printed in China
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To my many friends in the game
especially those I didnt mention
I dedicate this hook.
Most of the contributors to this book are mentioned at the appropriate places in the text. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Lee Simon, owner of Novato Billiards, for the use and abuse of his equipment; Terry Moldenhauer of Golden West Billiard Mfg. Co. for lending me his remarkable collection of movie stills; Bob Jewett, who has taught me so much about the technicalities of the game; Paul Gerni for giving me the run of his home as well as his notebooks; Jess Meshanic for much valuable historical information and for putting me in touch with wise men from the East; Mike Massey, owner of pooldoms most awesome stroke, for freely sharing his extensive knowledge of trick shots; Jimmy Caras, Ivor Bfansford, and Myron Zownir for helpful and stimulating exchanges of letters; Paul Lucchesi, Sr., for helping me push back the origins of many standard shots; Joan Byrne for research at the Library of Congress, Hugh Frser for research in London, and Joan and Pete Margo for general research assistance; Edward Meyers, Archivist of Ripley International, Ltd., for his thoroughness in searching through the late cartoonists legacy; Herb Juliano, Curator of the Sports and Games Research Collection at the University of Notre Dame, for furnishing the Mingaud title page; Clem Trainer for unwavering interest and support; Dick Meyers of Billiard Archives for digging up some rare items; Mark Mikulich for the beautiful line drawings of tables, players, and hands; Bill Marshall, also known as Willie Jopling, the worlds leading creator of pool trick shots, for an endless stream of information; the staff of Paragraphics for helpfulness and good humor; the late Charlie Peterson, Americas greatest exhibition player, for getting me interested in the subject in the first place; and Knox Burger and Kitty Sprague for transcending their roles.
Book One
POOL
Book Two
BILLIARDS
T his is a book celebrating the recreational aspects of one of the worlds oldest and most popular games. The words trick shots in the title are taken to mean anything amusing, surprising, educational, or profitable that can be done on a pool or billiard table with standard accessories. Here youll find shots that require little more than a piece of secret information; spectacular stunts that take years of practice; and novelty items with chalk, coin wrappers, and bottles of beer. For some of the shots youll need your mouth, your fingers, or your feet.
Trick shots display human creativity at its most beguiling. Some look tough but are so easy they can be made by the clumsiest of television sportscasters; others are so difficult even world champions try them only in private or for each other. As challenges or proposition bets, many trick shots can be used to win money from people you are larger than. While the emphasis is on entertainment, there is plenty here for students as well, for trick shots teach the principles of the game in a vivid and memorable manner. In matches between players of equal skill, victory usually goes to the one who knows the most.
Even though this collection of trick and skill shots is five times bigger than anything similar ever published, it comes nowhere near scraping the bottom of the barrel. The barrel, in fact, is bottomless. Not only is the subject vast and diverse, its growing, limited solely by the powers of imagination. If I hadnt confined myself to what in my view was the cream of the crop, I could have made nearly every chapter twice as long. New shots are being invented all the time, and in these pages youll find dozens that were dreamed up during the year the book was in production. More than half of the 350 shots Ive chosen to diagram will be new to all but the best-informed professionals. A hundred have never been published anywhere.
In gathering material, I found books published in the nineteenth century to be a rich source, particularly those by Mingaud (1830), Phelan (1858), McCleery (1890), and Thatcher (1898). Present-century books I scavenged include those by Herrmann (1902, reissued in 1967 by Dover), Caras (1948), Ponzi (1948), and Mosconi (1965). A veritable gold mine was an anonymous book called Trick and Fancy Pocket Billiard Shots, published in 1918. Only the titles by Herrmann, Caras, and Mosconi are in print and readily available today; among them they describe some 156 shots (with many duplications). From that stock I have chosen only a dozen or two of the bestin almost every case tracing them to earlier writers-preferring to stress less familiar material
Other printed sources I have drawn upon include the monthly National Billiard News (1962), the bi-monthly Billiards Digest (1978-), and the now-defunct American Billiard Review (1969-1977). For more details on sources, see the Bibliography on pages 291-292.
Whenever possible, I have named the inventor of the shots described, though seldom with confidence. Even the shots I invented myself may be unconscious borrowings or rediscoveries. The so-called Shoot-off-your-mouth shot, for example, I believe was invented independently by three different players, as detailed on page 14. Because I did not have the assistance of the FBI and the CIA, I was unable to track down the origins of every shot and sort out conflicting claims of authorship. In many cases, the best I could do was tell who showed me the shot. I hope that readers familiar with the literature of pool and billiards will find the attempt to give credit where it is due a refreshing change.
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