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3 unusual facts about Luther Lassiter


Don Willis

Don Willis (May 1, 1909 – March 2, 1984) was a colorful pool hustler from Canton, Ohio who often traveled with pool champion Luther Lassiter.

Luther Lassiter

Queried on the subject of his pitching, Lassiter himself said, "Oh, sure, I played some baseball. In fact, it was at some little old ball game that I once ate twelve hot dogs and drank thirteen Cokes and Orange Crushes, and everybody fell to calling me Wimpy" (after the J. Wellington Wimpy character of the Popeye comic strip by the same name who loved to eat hamburgers).

These were round-robin tournaments, in which each player would be matched against the others in a single match, with each playing the same number of matches, and receiving a set number of points for each match won.



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