Black Farce and Cue Ball Wizards The Inside Story of the Snooker World

Name: Black Farce and Cue Ball Wizards The Inside Story of the Snooker World
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ISBN: 9781845961992

ISBN-10: 1845961994

ISBN-13: 9781845961992

Edition: 2007

Authors: Clive Everton

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Throughout its colorful history, the billiard sport of snooker has had more than its fair share of heroes and villains, champions and chumps, rascals and rip-off artists. In the last 20 years, every sleazy scandal imaginable has attached itself to this raffish sport: corruption, match fixing, bribery, sex, recreational drugs, performance-enhancing drugs, ballot rigging, fraud, theft, and domestic violence—all against a background of inept petty czars fixated on the pursuit, retention, and abuse of power. Clive Everton recounts the glory and despair that have characterized the game since it was invented as an innocent diversion by British Army officers in India in the 19th century. He tells…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited
Publication date: 9/28/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English