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Michael Sigel (born July 11, 1953) is an American professional pool player [1] [2] nicknamed " Captain Hook ." He earned the nickname from his ability to hook his opponents with safety plays. [3] Sigel was dominant during the 1980s in 9-Ball and Straight Pool and has a high run of 339 balls in Straight Pool.
Ultimate Nine-Ball Challenge (1999) Ultimate Shootout (1999) Tokyo Open 9-Ball (1992, 2001) All Japan Championship (1979, 1990, 1999, 2003) International Pool Tour. IPT King of the Hill Eight-Ball Shootout (2005) IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship (2006) International Challenge of Champions (2002)
Myrle Vernon King. Occupation. Softball player. Years active. 1940s–2000. Known for. The King and His Court. Struck out six MLB superstars in a row (1967) Eddie " The King " Feigner ( / ˈfeɪnər /, FAY-nər; March 25, 1925 – February 9, 2007) was an American softball pitcher and entertainer.
Quarter finals 1992 WPA World Nine-ball Championship. Tournament wins. Other titles. 100. World Champion. English Eight-ball ( 1985) James Rempe (born November 4, 1947, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, US) [1] is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player, and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America 's Hall of Fame in 2002.
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each long side.
The International Pool Tour was a professional sports tour created in 2005 by Kevin Trudeau and hosted by Rebecca Grant. [1] It aimed to elevate pool to the level of other modern sports. Closely modeled on the PGA Tour, the IPT offered the largest prize funds in pool history in its first year. The tour attracted the top pool players in the world.
The 2021 U.S. Open Pool Championship (previously U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship) was an international nine-ball pool tournament held from 13 to 18 September 2021 in Harrah’s Resort, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Globus cruciger. The globus cruciger ( Latin for 'cross-bearing orb'), also known as stavroforos sphaira ( Greek: σταυροφόρος σφαίρα) [1] or "the orb and cross", is an orb surmounted by a cross. It has been a Christian symbol of authority since the Middle Ages, used on coins, in iconography, and with a sceptre as royal regalia.
The ball python ( Python regius ), also called the royal python, is a python species native to West and Central Africa, where it lives in grasslands, shrublands and open forests. This nonvenomous constrictor is the smallest of the African pythons, growing to a maximum length of 182 cm (72 in). [2] The name "ball python" refers to its tendency ...
A 19th-century drawing of Sun Wukong featuring his staff. Ruyi Jingu Bang (Chinese: 如意金箍棒; pinyin: Rúyì Jīngū Bàng; Wade–Giles: Ju 2-yi 4 Chin 1-ku 1-pang 4), or simply Ruyi Bang or Jingu Bang, is the poetic name of a magical staff wielded by the immortal monkey Sun Wukong in the 16th-century classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.