Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey
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| Management number | 233293409 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | US$5.04 | Model Number | 233293409 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0380729237 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0380729234 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Dey Street Books |
| Dimensions | 5.25 x 0.87 x 8 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.31 pounds |
| Print length | 384 pages |
| Publication date | April 1, 1997 |
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