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Title: The Straight Pool Bible: Personal Instruction from a World Champion Arthur "Babe" Cranfield and Laurence S. Moy by Arthur "Babe" Cranfield, Laurence S Moy ISBN: 1-58574-025-X Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A very mixed bag
Comment: Covers some aspects of Straight Pool...but never in enough depth or clarity. More worth your money are Capelle's "Play your Best Straight Pool" (everything you can imagine about the game) and Fels' classic "Advanced Pool" (not quite as in depth as Capelle, but with good sections on the mental aspect of pool, plus several racks analyzed shot by shot). To be perfectly honest, I junked Babe's book a month after buying it; I simply had no use for it alongside better books like the above-mentioned.
Rating: 4
Summary: A book from one of the best.
Comment: I've had the pleasure of watching Babe Cranfield play on numerous occasions. In my opinion, he ranks as one of the the top straight pool players of all time. The beauty of his game was an aggressive style coupled with brilliant pattern play. Few could run a rack in the simple uncomplicated manner of the Babe. This book conveys the importance of pocketing balls in the correct sequence to ensure run-outs without moving the cueball all over the table - a lost art to the modern nine ball player. While there are no new fundamentals or deep secrets revealed, the reader does gain insight from one of the finest gentlemen to ever play the game.
Rating: 2
Summary: If there's one thing this is, it's a book
Comment: Cranfield and Moy do manage to get across a few useful facts and strategies for straight pool, but there's really nothing new here. Not only is the content of the book fairly weak, it's also full of technical inaccuracies. Considering the level of play that Cranfield was at, it's interesting to note that he apparently has no grasp whatsoever of the actual effects of english and throw. While a good player of any of the other cuesports might find this a useful introduction to the strategy of straight pool, I think a beginner may find this book does irreparable harm to his understanding of basic fundamentals.
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Title: Essential Pool: A Complete Course from a World Champion by Arthur Cranfield, Laurence S. Moy ISBN: 1585745006 Publisher: Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Byrne's Advanced Technique in Pool and Billiards by Robert Byrne ISBN: 0156149710 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards: Completely Revised and Updated by Mike Shamos ISBN: 1585746851 Publisher: Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Byrne's Complete Book of Pool Shots: 350 Moves Every Player Should Know by Robert Byrne ISBN: 0156027216 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 06 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Shooting Pool by George Bennett, Michael Ian Shamos ISBN: 188518395X Publisher: Artisan Publishers Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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