Danny Diliberto - "Crane for example sells Cadillacs when he isn't running balls, Balsis is a butcher and Mizerak a schoolteacher." - The Arizona Republic - 1/22/1970

Irving Crane wins 5th World Pocket Billiards Championship in Los Angeles - National Billiards News - 3/1970

National Billiards Chalks - Chicago - makes 90% of the chalk in the world - The Macon News - 5/8/1970

Rules came into play again later when Ron Allen miscued on a break and did not touch the balls in a nine-ball game. His opponent wanted the next shot.  "I'll bet the $1,500 I have coming in the one-pocket against a dollar right now.  "the rules say you have to hit the ball when you beak in nine-ball or one-pocket either" Allen won his argument. - Souther Illinois - 10/19/1970

Johnston City, Ill - Federal and stage agents today raided the Show Bar Tavern, known as "the pool capital of the world" and seized an unspecified amount of cash and betting paraphernalia - The Evansville Press - 10/26/1972

First National Professional -Amateur Invitational Billard Tournament - "what's the business of us not being allowed to wear slacks"" - "Nobody will be disqualified for wearing slacks today" - Detroit Free Press - 11/9/1970

Fritz Peterson, New York Yankees top pitcher in 1970, the Northern Illinois University physical education teacher, teaches billiards in the off season - The Evening News - 1/12/1971

Albany Billiard Ball Company says its share of the market has declined to about 30% and has requested an import duty increase from 20% to 35% - their largest competitor is Callennelle of Belgium - The Austion American - 2/19/1971

Willie Mosconi mastered the 5' x 10' table with pockets 4 1/2" wide on the corners and 4 3/4" wide on the sides - "The name of pool is slang.  It comes from England when they had betting pool and the bookies put tables in for his customers- The Bradenton Herald - 3/16/1971

There are already four million pocket billiard tables in home in the USA - The Akron Beacon Journal - 4/22/1971

Ruth McGinnis, women's pocket billiards champion, died Wednesday at the age of 64.  She had been hospitalized for cancer - Independent - 5/16/1971

Jean Balukas, 13 years old, wins the 1972 US Open Pockets Billiards Championship in Chicago - Carlsbad Current Argus - 2/11/1973

Irving Crane, wins his last of 6 World Pocket Billiards Championships - The Daily Oklahoman - 2/21/1972

For one thing the place looked like a convention of the Italian American Anti-Defamation League. For some reason yet to be explained, almost every rising young pool player in America is Italian - The World-News - 8/28/1982

Minnesota Fats and 39 others appear before a federal grand jury in connection with a large-scale gambling operation - The Edwardsville Intelligencer - 10/26/72

They say when Jean Balukas went to her first US Open Championship, the doorman wouldn't let her in. He said that she was too young to watch. She said that she hadn't come to watch, she had come to play. She was 9 years old. She won her first US Open Championship at 13 in 1972 - The Philadelphia Inquirer - 7/9/1979

Danny Delibero showed up sporting a pair of lovely two-tone blue suede shoes with 2" heels.  After a series of botched shots, he finally realized what the problem was.  The shoes, I'm so high up in the air and I'm getting a completely different view of the balls - The World News - 1/22/1973

Billiard tournaments are possibly the only form of sports competition where the players are better dressed than the spectators - Valley News - 2/13/1973

Irving Crane's nickname stems from the reverence from his fellow billiard players. Six times he has been world champion. He would like as much at home behind a pulpit as a pool cue. He looks like a man of distinction-tall and thin, with steel grey eyes, white hair parted down the middle, and an outspoken manner. - Star Gazette - 2/18/1973

Saluc (Aramith) of Belgium, manufacturers 75% of the world's billiard balls. 22,000 balls per day - Coventry Evening Telegraph - 5/1/1973

Crane broke in playing call shot on a table 5' x 10'.  The last time such a table was used in tournament competition was in 1949.  They now play on 4 1/2" x 9' with pockets a 1/2" wider - The Des Moines Register - 1/13/1974

Willie Mosconi - You have to learn to visualize 10 - 12 shots ahead.  I once could break and tell you where the cue ball would be with 2 inches of every shot for the rest of the run - The Shreveport Journal 2/11/1974

Billiard manufacturers are budgeting for a 20% increase over last year when 500,000 tables were sold - Fort Worth Star Telegram - 2/17/1974

Boston Shorty holds the world 8 ball title as well as the 3-cushion national championship - Chicago Tribune - 5/12/1974

A billiard trick shot artist from France named Captain Mingaud invented the leather tip in 1807.  Shortly afterwards, in England, Jack Carr discovered that by cueing the ball on the side he could control it with what the world soon called English - The Forsythe Independent - 1/30/1975

Cliff Thornburn, this year's Canadian Snooker champion will represent Canada in the World Professional Snooker Championship in Australia next year seeking the $15,000 ($90,000 in 2025$) - The Leader Post - 2/13/1975

Willie Mosconi - "Greenleaf won 13 world championships, I won 15. In Detroit I won 14 consecutive games to defend my title. They told me how great a money play Luther Lassiter was, I went down to N.C. and cornered him. I beat him for the money every time. - The World-News - 12/5/1975

90% of all billiard tables sold in the US are for home play, according to Ajay-Ebonite - manufacturer of Ebonite billiard tables - Fort Lauderdale News - 12/6/1975

Veyo Resorts has installed a Po-Jo course. Po-Jo is a unique billiards/golf game.  It consists of specially designed billiard tables which make up a nine-hole golf course, scoring is like golf, but a cue-stick and billiards balls are used - The Dixie Sun - 2/12/1976

Bruce Christopher, Belleville, ON - holds the world record for the greatest number of billiard balls pocketed in 24 hours, according to the Guiness Book of Records, he pocketed them at a rate of 15.19 per second - The Toronto Star - 4/27/1976

Jean Balukas, a 17 year old high school senior, won her fifth straight championship by defeating Gloria Walker, 75-46, earning $1,700 ($8,000 2025$) - The Tampa Tribune - 8/16/2025

The first World Open Pocket Billiards Championship is sponsored by the Professional Pool Players Association.  Founded 3 months ago in opposition to the established Billiards Congress of America - The San Bernardino County Sun - 8/18/1976

Vera Selby, wins the inaugural Women's World Snooker Championship - 1st of 9 - Darlington and Stockton Times - 9/15/2017

Billiard rules at a private clud:
Do not sit on tables -bridges are supplied for a purpose
Any member tearing cloth pays for repairs
Do not play on dirty table - steward will brush
Do not play with cold balls - they crack easilty
Before playing put your cigar, cigarette, pipe in ashtray
Press and Sun Bulletin - 1/23/1977

Although there are many forms of pool and pocket billiards, by far the most popular form is straight pool - The Arizona Republican - 2/12/1977

Louis Roberts - 'Hustling can be a grim business.  I've been beat up twice, in Indianapolis and Kansas City.  In Indianapolis, I beat a guy out of $35 in a strip joint, and the guy decided that he wanted to beat my head in." - The Los Angeles Times - 4/8/1977

Jean Balukas, Hall of Famer, she won her 6th straight US Open Pocket Billiards Championship - The Journal Herald - 8/16/1977

An early version of the game had the pocket in the center on the bed of the table.  Obstacle like hoops, ivory pegs, kings, forts and gun batteries were scattered over early tables.  The object was to get by them without knocking them over - Palladium-Item - 1/31/1978

Cliff Thornburg, Canadian snooker master, gives 4–5-hours demonstrations at $200 - $300 ($900 - $1,300 in 205$) - Standard Freeholder - 2/14/1978

Ralph Greenleaf's wife, the Chinese Princess Nai Tai Tai, died a pauper after living a luxurious life style when Ralph was alive - The Philadelphia Inquirer - 3/16/1978

Willie Mosconi, quit competition after a 1957 stroke left him partially paralyzed.  He is currently selling Ebonite tables. - The Tampa Times - 11/30/1978

The creation of coin-operated billiards tables by the industry probably had the biggest impact on the billiards popularity prior to the introduction of the home billiards table.  The innovation made the game practical for bars, cafes, taverns and arcades - The Idaho Stateman - 1/18/1979

Babe Cranfield, a lefthander who Kaulfuss called "one of the fastest." Kaulfuss recalls that Cranfield ran 400 - straight balls - three times - The Post Star - 2/17/1979

Mike Sigel wins his 1st of 3 World Pocket Billiards Championship at 26 - Willie Mosconi quote "another boy who is going to do something is that Mike Sigel.  He is a nice boy, clean cut and a good player.  He'll make it because of his attitude"   The Evening Sun - 8/23/1979

The biggest money billiards tournament in the US since the days of Willie Hoppe was held in San Jose.  28 of the top players showed up for the $7,100 ($30K in 2025 $) purse - The San Francisco Examiner - 8/14/1979