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This listing is for one Classic Cuts Authentic Cut Autograph card of WILLIE MOSCONI, from 2007 Upper Deck Sweet Spot MLB Baseball Trading Cards. The Signature is in Blue Ink, with serial number #01/14 at the front. This card has been Professionally Authenticated & Graded by Beckett as BGS 8.5, in NM-MT+ condition. Autograph Grade is 10. Listing Photo #4 is the item before grading.
William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913 – September 12, 1993), best known as Willie Mosconi, was an American professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship an unmatched fifteen times. For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America – he was nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards" – and he was among the first Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees. Mosconi pioneered and regularly employed numerous trick shots, set many records, and helped to popularize pool as a national recreation activity.
During the 1940s and 1950s, the pocket billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14.1 continuous, a form of pool considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's fast tournament game nine-ball. Mosconi still holds the officially recognized straight pool high run world record of 526 consecutive balls.Mosconi was the technical advisor on the 1961 film The Hustler, starring Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and Piper Laurie.
The movie played a major part in the boom in the popularity of pool.
Mosconi's job was to teach Newman how to walk, talk, and shoot like a
real pool hustler. Newman had never even picked up a pool cue prior to
filming, but his relative inexperience was undetectable due to Mosconi's
expert instruction. According to Mosconi,
Mosconi also had a cameo role as himself, acting as a stakes holder during the first match-up between the film's characters "Fast Eddie" Felson and "Minnesota Fats". Gleason can be heard saying "Willie, hang on to that" (the money) when the match commences. At various points in the extended scene, a keen eye can spot Mosconi in the audience watching the match.
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