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5'9" and 300# is not a recipe for a long life, but wow, 44 is young.
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How good was Danny? Past his hustler days here..the 2004 Glass City Open, held in Toledo, Ohio. Also a good moment from the days of winner break tournaments, when players exhibited individual style not seen in today's more scientific, more lookalike players.
Warning..50 minutes. But enjoyable if you like pool at all. Danny's opponent here, Corey Deuel, aka "The Prince of pool" is really no slouch. It's just that Danny was really in dead stroke zone for this match.
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Book title: Running the Table, by L. Jon Wertheim. 2007 by Houghten Miffin Company 215 Park Avenue South, NY, NY 10003.
Dunno if it's still in print...about to give my copy a re-read. (edit) Should you ever hear a pool player say he was in the zone, or in dead stroke, you can see what it's like in the above video. In this match, that's where Danny was...it's a sort of another world. A train could crash into the building, and all the player would see is the table. I've sort of felt it for a rack or two, but never even close to that level. But when it's happening...wow. Brief moments that kept me hooked...
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"And it’s a culture that keeps to itself. Rich and rambunctious as the Derby City Classic scene is, you suspect that the vast majority of Louisvillians have no idea it takes place every year. It certainly isn’t covered in the newspapers or on local sports-radio shows. You wonder how many people drive by the Executive West, see the jammed parking lot, and just assume the Shriners or the Fuller Brush salesmen are holed up inside. Danny Basavich used to be at the gravitational center of the pool phylum, hustling suckers and getting big action. But now — like most pros, suffciently well known that they’re no longer able to play incognito — he’s been displaced to the margins. At three or so one morning, he figured he’d spotted one mark he could take down for a few grand, a cocky-looking local kid named Dale, wearing a Louisville Cardinals cap backwards, a brown leather bomber jacket, and a pair of sweatpants. As he’d done countless times before, Basavich would pose as the slovenly fat guy, ask the kid if he wanted to hit a little nine-ball for money, and let prejudice take over. No way can that fatass beat me. Basavich was on the verge of getting his first money game of the week when the kid’s stakehorse, a lanky Asian slickster in a rugby shirt, intervened. “Dude, you can’t play him,” the stakehorse said, pulling his boy aside and pointing to Basavich. “I ain’t backing you against him. He’ll annihilate you.” “What are you talking about?” Dale pleaded. “You know how good I play.” “****, man. Are you ****in’ kidding? You know who that is?” “Nah, who?” said Dale. “****, man. That’s Kid Delicious.” The stakehorse then stated what so many others knew, that Kid Delicious guy — that obese, hail-fellow- well-met with the ice-breaking personality and paint-peeling voice — may well have divorced more pool players from their money than anyone else under the roof. Copyright © 2007 by L. Jon Wertheim. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition." Oh..the story, as told by Danny, goes that the "Kid Delicious" nickname came to be when he was still in his teens....playing a guy whose nickname was "Kid Vicious". Somebody commented that Kid Vicious was losing to Kid Delicious. The nickname stuck.
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