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hurting the image of the game instead of helping it." Fats would state smugly, "I may have 'given away' a few games to deserving competitors, but I have never lost a real money game since I was old enough to spell 'Weeli
Mesconi'." The two competed on Valentine's Day (February 14), 1978 in a televised match on ABC's
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for the film. Wanderone almost immediately dropped his "New York Fats" nickname, adopted the name "Minnesota Fats", and began spreading the story that the character was based on him. Tevis denied this for the rest of his life. However, Derek
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champion "Cowboy" Weston; Wanderone won, handily. Wanderone left school in the eighth grade and became a traveling pool hustler, spending much of the 1920s playing at a pool hall called
Cranfield's in New York City, where he received his first nickname after beating another hustler known as "Smart
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as better at boasting. His critical biographer, R.A. Dyer, documents that Fats completely fabricated a "here-by-fate" tale about a car wreck which brought the player to Little Egypt; it was a tale that Fats encouraged to be spread and further embellished in his autobiography to lend an air of the
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said she believed that he was her biological father, having reportedly been told that by her mother as well as by others who knew her mother and whom James described as "people who were there and should know". However, there is no published evidence of such a relationship. James and Fats are only
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Fats enjoyed promoting a feud with world champion
Mosconi over how to present pool—either as a rough-and-tumble gambling game (Fats) or as a genteel pastime and art form (Mosconi). Mosconi's widow, Flora, said of the rivalry, "My husband hated Minnesota Fats because he felt that was always
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playing one another in a game of pool. In 1980, while visiting a one-mile stretch of St. Louis, Fats had to double his order of autographed pictures after he was stopped thirty-seven times. During this trip he was beaten by
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but also to the predatory nature of hustlers. Fats is remembered for saying on his way out a pool room door, "Boys, the only difference between me and everybody else is that everybody else drives around in a
Volkswagen, and Minnesota Fats drives around in a
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player. Although he never won a major pool tournament as "Fats", he was at one time perhaps the most publicly recognized pool player in the United States—not only as a player, but also as an entertainer. Wanderone was inducted in 1984 into the
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limousine with his extended moniker painted along the side panels in translucent paint, changing colors as it moved with the reflections from the sun: "Minnesota Fats, King of Pool". His 1980
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with a carload of pool hustlers, you would get bit so hard and so often that you would need a malaria vaccine and a new bankroll as well", a reference not only to the area's notorious
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immigrants who married in New York. One of three siblings (he had two sisters), Rudolf Jr. was born in 1913, but sometimes hinted he was born earlier, even as early as 1900.
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was released. The film tells the story of a pool shark named "Fast Eddie" Felson and his quest to beat the greatest pool player in
America, "Minnesota Fats". World Champion
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for "Meritorious
Service" in recognition of his contributions to helping popularize the game of pool. In 1984, Fats abandoned his wife, Evelyn; they divorced a year later.
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443:(October 13, 1971). His fame as "Fats" had already made it difficult for Fats to hustle effectively, so he relied more and more on exhibition games for income.
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of October 1984—Fats' last notable television appearance—he finally turned the tables on his rival. The event began with a
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to dub Wanderone "Double-Smart". By the mid-1930s, during the
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Dyer, R. A. (September 2008). "Fats Family Breakthrough".
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Wanderone, Rudolf ; Fox, Tom (2006) . Dyer, R. A. (ed.).
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Wanderone's first billiards teacher, the German champion
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promotional poster (1971). USA: International Cinema.
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343:(1971) starring Wanderone as "Fats".
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1115:. December 28, 1970. Archived from
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361:Minnesota "Fats" Book of Billiards
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997:: Luby Publishing. November 2018.
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1305:"Minnesota Fats vs. Everybody".
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