I didn't get very far talking to Paul. We got interrupted by another phone call, and when I talked to him again, he had decided he did not want the HOF recognition. He did clarify his name is spelled Bruseloff, and he was born in NYC April 10, 1927. He first started playing pool when he was 12 living in East New York. He lived in East New York until he was 14, when he moved to Detroit. He first gambled on pool the first time he played, when he was 12 years old, “for a nickel”. When he started to play pool 8-Ball was 3 cents a rack, straight pool was 20 cents an hour. He liked to gamble on everything, but pool was the most fun. He said every nationality in the world was represented (at the Rack), and everybody played everybody.
I would have loved to hear a lot more, but it was not to be.
