Willie Mosconi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetWillie Mosconi
American pool player
Date of Birth: 27-Jun-1913
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 17-Sep-1993
Profession: pool player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Willie Mosconi
- William Joseph Mosconi (; June 27, 1913 – September 17, 1993) was an American professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship an unmatched fifteen times.
- For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America – he was nicknamed "Mr.
- Pocket Billiards" – and he was among the first Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees.
- Mosconi pioneered and regularly employed numerous trick shots, set many records, and helped to popularize pool as a national recreation activity. During the 1940s and 1950s, the pocket billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14.1 continuous, a form of pool considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's fast tournament game nine-ball.
- Mosconi set the officially-recognized straight pool high run world record of 526 consecutive balls in 1954.
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