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Playing off the Rail

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ISBN-10: 0380729237

ISBN-13: 9780380729234

Edition: N/A

Authors: David McCumber

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.07" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English