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Rudolf Wanderone

Index Rudolf Wanderone

Rudolf Walter Wanderone Jr. (January 19, 1913 – January 15, 1996; originally spelled Wanderon) Includes three photos of his grave marker; provides birth and death dates, and legal surname spelling. [1]

68 relations: Allen Hopkins (pool player), Anacostia, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Balkline and straight rail, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Billiard Congress of America, Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame, Billiard table, Cadillac Fleetwood, Chicago, David Frost, Defamation, Dowell, Illinois, Du Quoin, Illinois, Duesenberg, Etta James, Exhibition game, Game show, Great Depression, Guilford, Connecticut, Hermitage Hotel, Howard Cosell, Hustling, Illinois, Jimmy Mataya, Leon Spinks, Lincoln Motor Company, Luther Lassiter, Minnesota Fats, Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend, Mosquito, Muhammad Ali, Nashville, Tennessee, Nine-ball, Norfolk, Virginia, Pool (cue sports), Pun, Seattle, Senior management, Seven-ball, Sid Caesar, Southern Illinois, Sports Illustrated, Sports journalism, Steve Mizerak, Stunt performer, Switzerland, The Hustler (film), The Hustler (novel), The Joey Bishop Show (talk show), ..., The New York Times, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Time (magazine), Titanic Thompson, Trick shot, United States Armed Forces, United States Census Bureau, United States dollar, University of Michigan, Vegas (1978 TV series), Villard (imprint), Virtual reality, Waldorf Astoria New York, Walter Tevis, Washington Heights, Manhattan, What's My Line?, Wide World of Sports (U.S. TV series), Willie Mosconi. Expand index (18 more) »

Allen Hopkins (pool player)

Allen Hopkins (born November 18, 1951, Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player, professional billiards color commentator and BCA Hall of Fame inductee.

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Anacostia

Anacostia is a historic neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Its downtown is located at the intersection of Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

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Balkline and straight rail

Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line or balk-line) is the overarching title of a large array of carom billiards games generally played with two and a third, red, on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, less table that is divided by on the cloth into marked regions called.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.

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Billiard Congress of America

Billiard Congress of America (BCA) is a governing body for cue sports in North America (here defined as the United States and Canada exclusively), the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA).

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Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame

This is the list of people inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's hall of fame.

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Billiard table

A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which billiards-type games (cue sports) are played.

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Cadillac Fleetwood

The Cadillac Fleetwood is a model of luxury cars that were manufactured by the Cadillac division of General Motors between 1976 and 1996.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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David Frost

Sir David Paradine Frost (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English television host, media personality, journalist, comedian, and writer.

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Defamation

Defamation, calumny, vilification, or traducement is the communication of a false statement that, depending on the law of the country, harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

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Dowell, Illinois

Dowell is a village in Jackson County, Illinois, United States.

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Du Quoin, Illinois

Du Quoin is a city in Perry County, Illinois, United States.

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Duesenberg

Duesenberg Motors Company (sometimes referred to as "Duesy") was an American manufacturer of race cars and luxury automobiles.

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Etta James

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel.

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Exhibition game

An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, a scrimmage, a demonstration, a preseason game, a warmup match, or a preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced.

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Game show

A game show is a type of radio, television, or stage show in which contestants, individually or as teams, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles, usually for money or prizes.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Guilford, Connecticut

Guilford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, that borders Madison, Branford, North Branford and Durham, and is situated on I-95 and the Connecticut seacoast.

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Hermitage Hotel

The Hermitage Hotel, is a historic hotel located at 231 6th Avenue North in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Howard Cosell

Howard William Cosell (born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality.

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Hustling

Hustling is the deceptive act of disguising one's skill in a sport or game with the intent of luring someone of probably lesser skill into gambling (or gambling for higher than current stakes) with the hustler, as a form of both a confidence trick and match fixing.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jimmy Mataya

Jimmy Mataya is an American professional pool player, nicknamed "Pretty Boy Floyd".

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Leon Spinks

Leon Spinks (born July 11, 1953) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 1995.

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Lincoln Motor Company

Lincoln, formally the Lincoln Motor Company, is a luxury vehicle brand of the American manufacturer Ford Motor Company.

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Luther Lassiter

Luther Lassiter (November 5, 1918 – October 25, 1988),MyFamily.com Inc.

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Minnesota Fats

Minnesota Fats, or George Hegerman, is a fictional pool hustler created by American novelist Walter Tevis.

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Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend

Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend (released in Japan as) is a pocket billiards video game for the Sega Genesis and Sega Saturn, featuring famed billiards player Minnesota Fats (as portrayed in "real-life" form by Rudolf Wanderone).

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Mosquito

Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.

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Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Nine-ball

Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a contemporary form of pool (pocket billiards), with historical beginnings rooted in the United States and traceable to the 1920s.

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Norfolk, Virginia

Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Pool (cue sports)

Pool is a cue sport played on a table with six pockets along the, into which balls are deposited.

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Pun

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Senior management

Senior management, executive management, or a management team is generally a team of individuals at the highest level of management of an organization who have the day-to-day tasks of managing that organization — sometimes a company or a corporation.

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Seven-ball

Seven-ball is a contemporary pool game with rules similar to nine-ball, though it differs in two key ways: the game uses only seven as implied by its name, and play is restricted to particular pockets of the table.

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Sid Caesar

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor and writer, best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows, which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar's Hour, both of which influenced later generations of comedians.

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Southern Illinois

Southern Illinois (also known as "Little Egypt" or "Egypt") is the southern third of the state of Illinois.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated is an American sports magazine owned by Meredith Corporation.

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Sports journalism

Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on sporting topics and competitions.

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Steve Mizerak

Stephen Mizerak Jr., better known as Steve Mizerak (October 12, 1944, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey – May 29, 2006), was a world champion pool player dominant during the 1970s and early 1980s, especially in the game of 14.1 continuous (straight pool) and nine-ball.

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Stunt performer

A stunt performer, often referred to as a stuntman, stuntwoman, or daredevil, is a trained professional who performs stunts, often as a career.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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The Hustler (film)

The Hustler is a 1961 American drama film directed by Robert Rossen from Walter Tevis's 1959 novel of the same name, adapted for the screen by Rossen and Sidney Carroll.

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The Hustler (novel)

The Hustler is a 1959 novel by American writer Walter Tevis.

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The Joey Bishop Show (talk show)

The Joey Bishop Show is an American talk show that had its first broadcast on ABC on April 17, 1967, hosted by Joey Bishop and featuring Regis Philbin in his first ongoing role with national television exposure, as Bishop's sidekick/announcer (similar to Ed McMahon's job with Johnny Carson).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from October 1, 1962 through May 22, 1992.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Titanic Thompson

Alvin Clarence Thomas (November 30, 1893 – May 19, 1974) was an American gambler, golfer and hustler better known as Titanic Thompson. He was a major witness at the 1929 Arnold Rothstein murder trial in New York City.

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Trick shot

A trick shot (also trickshot or trick-shot) is a shot played on a billiards table (most often a pool table, though snooker tables are also used), which seems unlikely or impossible or requires significant skill.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Vegas (1978 TV series)

Vegas (stylized as Vega$) is an American private detective crime drama television series that aired on ABC from April 25, 1978, to June 3, 1981.

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Villard (imprint)

Villard, also known as Villard Books, is a publishing imprint of Random House, one of the largest publishing companies in the world.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic.

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Waldorf Astoria New York

The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Walter Tevis

Walter Stone Tevis (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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Washington Heights, Manhattan

Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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What's My Line?

What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals.

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Wide World of Sports (U.S. TV series)

ABC's Wide World of Sports is an American sports anthology television program that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from April 29, 1961 to January 3, 1998, primarily on Saturday afternoons.

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Willie Mosconi

William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913 – September 17, 1993), generally known as Willie Mosconi, was an American professional pool (pocket billiards) player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Wanderone

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