Pool Legends

The greatest players in the history of pool — career stats, signature matches, and the moments that shaped the game.

Buddy Hall

Buddy The Rifleman Hall was one of the most accurate ball pocketers of the 1980s and 1990s nine ball circuit. Born in Metropolis, Illinois,…

Earl The Pearl Strickland was the most feared American nine ball player of the 1980s and 1990s — a streak shooter with a confrontational on…

Ewa The Striking Viking Mataya Laurance is a Swedish American professional who was the dominant women's player of the 1980s and one of the…

Gail Eaton is a longtime American women's professional who was a fixture on the early WPBA / WPA women's tour through the 1980s. Eaton was…

Jose Toro Mendoza is a Mexican American tournament player who emerged from the Texas action room scene in the 1980s and competed on the Cam…

Jose Amang Parica was the first Filipino professional to relocate full time to the United States and is widely credited with opening the Am…

Kim Davenport was one of the strongest American nine ball players of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a top ranked tournament finisher and M…

Mark Wilson is an American professional, instructor, and head coach of the Lindenwood University Belleville cue sports program — the first…

Nick Varner is one of the most decorated American pool professionals of all time, with more than 100 major tournament titles spanning strai…