Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/app/wp-content/plugins/wpsolr-pro/wpsolr/core/classes/ui/class-wpsolr-query.php:433) in /var/www/app/wp-includes/feed-rss2.php on line 8 https://knjiga.test.knjige.hr Najveći izbor knjiga u zemlji Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:59:44 +0000 hr hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://knjiga.test.knjige.hr/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-IMGBIN_stack-of-beautiful-books-png_KptTevvf-32x32.png https://knjiga.test.knjige.hr 32 32 https://knjiga.test.knjige.hr/the-hustler-and-the-champ-r-a-dyer-1 Sat, 01 Oct 2022 11:49:40 +0000 https://knjiga.hr/the-hustler-and-the-champ-r-a-dyer-1 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.

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