Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey Friday, July 31 2009.

• At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: David McCumber: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey Thursday, July 16 2009.

• WHEN I WAS YOUNG, THE POOLROOM WHERE I LIVED WAS VERY OLD.