I would like to nominate Alex Pagulayan. Only player to win Derby Master of the Table winning all 3 disciplines. All around great ambassador for the sport. Best One Pocket player on the planet, current.
Definitely a good candidate -- in time. We've been going with "20 years" as a top tier player in One Pocket as a minimum, and I think he is still a couple of few years short of that.
maybe next year for bustamante to make the ballot(s)……
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Rempe of course was a great pool player, but IMO not a top level 1P player. He could run balls with the rest of them, but he didn't seem to have a deep understanding of 1P. Recall that gruesome match at the '91 Legends where Fusco beat Rempe 5-0 by completely suffocating him.I remember watching Rempe play one pocket at Janscos in the late 60's he seemed to know his way around. How about Bob Osbourn?
Rempe of course was a great pool player, but IMO not a top level 1P player. He could run balls with the rest of them, but he didn't seem to have a deep understanding of 1P. Recall that gruesome match at the '91 Legends where Fusco beat Rempe 5-0 by completely suffocating him.
Also at that event Jersey Red beat Bob Osborne. I think Bob "Black Bart" was (is) a very good 1P player, just a shade below his contemporaries at 1P. Didn't he win the second Super Seniors 1P in Houston a coupla years ago? If memory serves me that was when they only had 18 or so players, and management decided to lower the next event's age to 65. Bob has always been a feared back room player though.
~Doc
Scott Frost should be a lock to get in this year allow me to bring up a deceased player that has the credentials to be inducted as a player, gambler, and a promoter of events. Richard Florence.
Dr. Bill
On the PATV broadcast of the Chohan/Pagulayan match, Jeremy Jones alluded to a match between Dr Bill and Black Bart. Can you give us the history of the match and what happened, Bill? Mr 3 Cushion intro'd me to Bob and he is still doing it. A man deserving of recognition.Rempe of course was a great pool player, but IMO not a top level 1P player. He could run balls with the rest of them, but he didn't seem to have a deep understanding of 1P. Recall that gruesome match at the '91 Legends where Fusco beat Rempe 5-0 by completely suffocating him.
Also at that event Jersey Red beat Bob Osborne. I think Bob "Black Bart" was (is) a very good 1P player, just a shade below his contemporaries at 1P. Didn't he win the second Super Seniors 1P in Houston a coupla years ago? If memory serves me that was when they only had 18 or so players, and management decided to lower the next event's age to 65. Bob has always been a feared back room player though.
~Doc
On the PATV broadcast of the Chohan/Pagulayan match, Jeremy Jones alluded to a match between Dr Bill and Black Bart. Can you give us the history of the match and what happened, Bill? Mr 3 Cushion intro'd me to Bob and he is still doing it. A man deserving of recognition.
Was looking at the past inductees, the picture of Rudolph Wanderone does not look like fatty.
I always enjoyed his commentary too -- a gravelly voice like long time Celtics play by play man Johnny Most. He definitely knew One Pocket!What about Johnny Ervolino, he not getting much votes! The only two time winner of the Stardust Open One Pocket '71 & '73. Some of our current HOF'ers were in those tournaments but yet it was Johnny that won!
Him and Jack Breit came up together in NY, and under the tutelage of some great players. Is there anymore info. on Johnny and OP? Whitey
This Fatty pic is an artist's painting based on a small black and white photo in Fatty's bio book -- Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies. The original was purportedly him as a young man -- no wonder you didn't recognize him