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Playing Off the Rail
David McCumber
其他書名
A Pool Hustler's Journey
出版Random House Value Publishing, 1998-05-13
主題Sports & Recreation / Bodybuilding & WeightliftingSports & Recreation / Pool, Billiards, SnookerTravel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN05173071039780517307106
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5vTgAAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.