Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey

David Mccumber

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UPC:
9780380729234
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
4/1/1997
Release Date:
4/1/1997
Author:
David McCumber
Language:
english
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At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with road fever that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the stakehorse (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating Renaissance Pool Hustler, student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke. With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.