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McGoorty

by Byrne, Robert

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McGoorty is master billiards writer Robert Byrne’s racy account of the life of Danny McGoorty, a billiards champion of that bygone era when cue artists were often scam artists and pool rooms were held to be dens of iniquity. Hustler and hobo, womanizer and fashion plate, McGoorty was at once eyewitness to Capone’s Chicago and the feats of greats like Willie Hoppe and Willie Mosconi. In an all-American voice at once sarcastic, profane, humorous, and chock full of colorful lingo, he relates his colorful and seedy life and times with a unique style and brio.

“Pool hustler, hobo, alcoholic, ladies’ man, and tournament player... McGoorty was a Runyonesque character and a first-rate raconteur. The result is a memoir that should rack up many readers, even among those that don’t know a cue from a swizzle stick.”
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“At times funny, occasionally filthy, here and there exaggerated, but it’s an entertaining story of a guy who doesn’t try to pass himself off as any sort of giant at the table: just a fellow who loved the game.”
WILLIE MOSCONI, NINETEEN-TIME WORLD STRAIGHT POOL CHAMPION

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Title of ebook: McGoorty
ISBN: 9780767918114
parent-ISBN: 9780767916318
Publisher: Broadway Books
Internet download file size: 713 kb
Published: 03-2004
Released online for download: 03-23-2004
Author of eBook: Byrne, Robert

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McGoorty

Chapter One

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Choosing a Career

If you think the Chicago cops are bad now, you should have seen them in the 1920's . . . my God, nobody was safe! They used to follow me all around the Loop, back and forth across the streets, in and out of restaurants. Into pool halls they followed me, right into the toilets. "Let's see your identification. Where do you work? Why not? Where do you live? How much money you got on you?" If I had a five-dollar bill I would have to fork it over to keep from getting thrown in the bucket for vagrancy. Then the next day those red-faced pricks would nail me again.

What bothered them about me was that I had no job and showed no signs of wanting to get one. They just could not stand the idea of a young man like me not having a job, and they weren't the only ones-my aunts were riding me about it, too. I was living with my aunts Margaret and Kate because they didn't charge me any rent and because they were good cover. When I told the cops I lived with two square apples in a nice residential neighborhood they figured I must be at least some kind of half-ass family man.

For a couple of years I had my aunts believing that I was ... read full excerpt from McGoorty ebook

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