Nic Barrow kept getting in trouble as a kid for throwing stones, so he found a safer way to fire a projectile: snooker. He played alongside a teenage Ronnie O’Sullivan, turned pro in 1991, and realized in his late 20s,...

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Jørgen Sandman hadn't finished university when his hometown billiard club in Sundsvall, Sweden, hired him as its full-time administrator. In 1979 he borrowed an idea from ice hockey to build a 10-skill test for pool players, the seed of what...

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Lonnie Fox Raymond was 16 when she found a Bud Light cue with a screw-on tip at a Detroit-area flea market and drew the ball on every shot, the only thing she knew how to do. After so many Michigan...

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Patrick Hummel found pool in 2002 because a coworker kept showing up to work exhausted from helping a friend build a billiard hall. Patrick walked into that room and never left. His first league win came as a five-man underdog...

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