American pool legend Willie Mosconi breaks off in a championship game in 1948. Mosconi won the World Straight Pool Championships a record 15 times between 1941 and 1957, becoming one of the best-known pool players of all time. He was asked to be an advisor on the classic 1961 film The Hustler; teaching Paul Newman, who starred as Fast Eddie Felson, how to play Illustration: Photograph: Gjon Mili/ Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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