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WML Project: Willie Mosconi and Minnesota Fats

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9/2/62 Willie Mosconi, pocket billiards champion is. another “Mr. X. He’s the first guest.


We find out why pocket billards is called "pool" and that it's not the preferred appellation.
 
He’s also in a 2/5/62 “I’ve Got Secret”:


Here he gets to demonstrate some of his trick shots, as well as his teaching ability.
 
And here he is on “To Tell the Truth” on 8/26/58:


And he’s pretending to be someone else! (This one's a lot of fun.)
 
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1/17/65 Minnesota Fats turned up onWML


The Minnesota Fats
isn’t really the character from the movie “The Hustler”. That Minnesota Fats was a fictional character. But Rudolph Wanderone, a gambler who also played pool, had the good sense to chance his name and start giving exhibitions around the country under that name, letting people assume that he was the character from the movie. He’s the first guest and they think Jackie Gleason played him in the movie. Rudy feuded with Willie Mosconi over his style and this deception. He finally beat Willie in an exhibition in 1984- after Willie had beaten him 36 times in a row!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Fats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Wanderone#Rivalry_with_Willie_Mosconi
 
Willie takes on the Fat man- in more ways than one.

 

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