Ralph Greenleaf
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Ralph Greenleaf
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Ralph Greenleaf was an American professional pool and carom billiards player. Greenleaf is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. Between the years 1919 and 1938, he won the World Straight Pool Championship nineteen times. His obituary in The New York Times said of Greenleaf, in March 1950: "What Babe Ruth did for baseball, Dempsey did for fighting, Tilden did for tennis...Greenleaf did for pocket billiards." The championships of his era were contested in the game of 14.
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American pool player
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Greenleaf
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2024-01-24T00:49:10Z
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