Larry Nicholson learned pool as a kid bowler, rolling the cue ball with sidespin across his father's six and a half foot table and pretending to throw strikes. A Kim Davenport Target Pool book turned him into a position player...

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Bob Jewett walked into the Berkeley student union in the 1960s, found seventeen pool tables, and lost interest in his math degree. He turned that background into a career nobody else in the sport has: a week in Jacksonville in...

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Mark Finkelstein was five years old when his father started taking him to a second floor pool room in Rockaway Beach, two subway stops from Aqueduct Racetrack. The best straight pool players in New York killed time on those tables...

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Bernie Friend picked up his first cue at eight years old in his Uncle Bernie's basement in Leonia, New Jersey, where his cousin Michael taught him a closed bridge, the finger aiming technique, and the value of an open mind....

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