Mr. Wanderone once exclaimed. Death of. As he told it in his 1966 biography, "The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies," by Tom Fox, "I've been eating like a sultan since I was 2 days old. Before rising to fame, the New York-born Fats hustled suckers at pool halls all over the country. “You could go into a restaurant the night after Mosconi and Fats had a match on television,” Burkman said.
Fats died of congestive heart failure, said his wife, Theresa Bell Wanderone, who already had his epitaph ready: “Beat everybody living on Earth. Nashville, Tennessee | Age 82. Although he had in fact made his living since the 1920's crisscrossing the country taking on all comers, until "The Hustler" came out in 1961, nobody beyond the small coterie of pool hustlers and their eager marks had heard of him. Although his frequent claim that he had never lost a game "when the cheese was on the table," was more fabrication than exaggeration, according to his first wife, Mr. Wanderone was in fact a master hustler who tended to be just as good as he needed to be when he needed to be. "He knew how to manage money," she said, insisting that while the late Willie Mosconi, the perennial professional champion, may have been correct in claiming to have won the vast majority of their games, "Fats always left with the money.
He became a household name in a sport that needed one badly, Conrad Burkman, publisher of National Billiard News, said. Minnesota Fats, (RUDOLF WALTER WANDERONE, JR.), U.S. billiards player (born Jan. 19, 1913?, New York, N.Y.—died Jan. 18, 1996, Nashville, Tenn.), popularized American billiards in the late 20th century as the prototypical smooth-talking pool hustler. Fats could shoot pool with either hand and often wore $100 bills in the handkerchief pocket of his suits. He was 82, or perhaps 95. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. He lived on and off in Nashville for much of his life. Here's how to track it in Washington and Idaho …, 'We're in that shift': 300-unit U District housing development will transform contaminated site and signals larger changes …, Supreme Court Justice Helen Whitener defends seat against former school administrator Richard Serns …, New health insurance plans available Nov. 1 through Washington Healthplanfinder. Receive email notification about people of national interest. It didn’t take long for Mosconi to prove his superior skills. He traced his interest in the sport to an uncle who used to take him to saloons and plop him down on the pool table when he was 2.
He could talk you out of a game rather than shoot you out of a game.”. Minnesota Fats.
“His big days in hustling were in the Second World War in Norfolk,” Burkman said.
"The pool table was my crib," he said. "Change a tire?" Fats’ career was interwoven with that of Willie Mosconi, who died in 1993. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds.
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Mosconi was the technical adviser on the set of “The Hustler,” and the duo paired off in a series of matches on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” during the 1970s. According to both of his wives, Mr. Wanderone was a courtly man of the old school, one who, for example, would inevitably remind his opponents to watch their language whenever he would escort his first wife into some dingy pool hall. Famed pool player, dies at 82. A Life of Legal Larceny In the late 1950's, Fats settled down in Dowell, Illinois, near the site of the infamous Johnston City hustlers' tournaments of the '60s. Minnesota Fats’ widow said Tuesday that James and Mr. Fats met about 20 years ago, and he told her he was not her father. His larger-than-life personality matched his corpulent frame (1.78 m and as heavy as 136 kg [5 ft 10 in; 300 lb]) and his penchant for telling tall tales about …
Fats died of congestive heart failure, said his wife Theresa Bell Wanderone, who already has his epitaph ready: "Beat everybody living on earth.
Rudolf Walter Wanderone, the charming, slick-talking pool hustler who labored largely in obscurity until he reinvented himself in the 1960's by claiming to be Minnesota Fats, died yesterday … However, he learned the game. With Fats, who insisted he was the prototype of the fictional character portrayed by Jackie Gleason in the movie "The Hustler," the only certainty was that you could never know for sure.
He learned it well enough to support himself without having to take an actual job, although he would have been far better off, his first wife said, had he been able to stay away from gambling at the dice tables. Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. Portrait.
“The sailors were there, easy marks and all that kind of stuff. So Wanderone started calling himself Minnesota Fats, and his fame and fortune rose.
“He probably did more for the sport of pool than any other human being alive,” pool wizard Fast Eddie Parker said. He won the shoot-out in the first three sets: Nine Ball (5-3), Eight Ball (5-2) and Rotation (5-2).
He got too well-known for that. She nursed him around the clock except, she said yesterday, when she would stay at home while her husband and her boyfriend went bar-hopping. I had a mother and three sisters who worshiped me, and when I was 2 years old they used to plop me in a bed with a jillion satin pillows and spray me with exotic perfumes and lilac water and then they would shoot me the grapes.". At one time, he weighed 245 pounds, but he was down to 175 in recent years.
Mr. Wanderone once exclaimed. Death of. As he told it in his 1966 biography, "The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies," by Tom Fox, "I've been eating like a sultan since I was 2 days old. Before rising to fame, the New York-born Fats hustled suckers at pool halls all over the country. “You could go into a restaurant the night after Mosconi and Fats had a match on television,” Burkman said.
Fats died of congestive heart failure, said his wife, Theresa Bell Wanderone, who already had his epitaph ready: “Beat everybody living on Earth. Nashville, Tennessee | Age 82. Although he had in fact made his living since the 1920's crisscrossing the country taking on all comers, until "The Hustler" came out in 1961, nobody beyond the small coterie of pool hustlers and their eager marks had heard of him. Although his frequent claim that he had never lost a game "when the cheese was on the table," was more fabrication than exaggeration, according to his first wife, Mr. Wanderone was in fact a master hustler who tended to be just as good as he needed to be when he needed to be. "He knew how to manage money," she said, insisting that while the late Willie Mosconi, the perennial professional champion, may have been correct in claiming to have won the vast majority of their games, "Fats always left with the money.
He became a household name in a sport that needed one badly, Conrad Burkman, publisher of National Billiard News, said. Minnesota Fats, (RUDOLF WALTER WANDERONE, JR.), U.S. billiards player (born Jan. 19, 1913?, New York, N.Y.—died Jan. 18, 1996, Nashville, Tenn.), popularized American billiards in the late 20th century as the prototypical smooth-talking pool hustler. Fats could shoot pool with either hand and often wore $100 bills in the handkerchief pocket of his suits. He was 82, or perhaps 95. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. He lived on and off in Nashville for much of his life. Here's how to track it in Washington and Idaho …, 'We're in that shift': 300-unit U District housing development will transform contaminated site and signals larger changes …, Supreme Court Justice Helen Whitener defends seat against former school administrator Richard Serns …, New health insurance plans available Nov. 1 through Washington Healthplanfinder. Receive email notification about people of national interest. It didn’t take long for Mosconi to prove his superior skills. He traced his interest in the sport to an uncle who used to take him to saloons and plop him down on the pool table when he was 2.
He could talk you out of a game rather than shoot you out of a game.”. Minnesota Fats.
“His big days in hustling were in the Second World War in Norfolk,” Burkman said.
"The pool table was my crib," he said. "Change a tire?" Fats’ career was interwoven with that of Willie Mosconi, who died in 1993. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds.
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Mosconi was the technical adviser on the set of “The Hustler,” and the duo paired off in a series of matches on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” during the 1970s. According to both of his wives, Mr. Wanderone was a courtly man of the old school, one who, for example, would inevitably remind his opponents to watch their language whenever he would escort his first wife into some dingy pool hall. Famed pool player, dies at 82. A Life of Legal Larceny In the late 1950's, Fats settled down in Dowell, Illinois, near the site of the infamous Johnston City hustlers' tournaments of the '60s. Minnesota Fats’ widow said Tuesday that James and Mr. Fats met about 20 years ago, and he told her he was not her father. His larger-than-life personality matched his corpulent frame (1.78 m and as heavy as 136 kg [5 ft 10 in; 300 lb]) and his penchant for telling tall tales about …
Fats died of congestive heart failure, said his wife Theresa Bell Wanderone, who already has his epitaph ready: "Beat everybody living on earth.
Rudolf Walter Wanderone, the charming, slick-talking pool hustler who labored largely in obscurity until he reinvented himself in the 1960's by claiming to be Minnesota Fats, died yesterday … However, he learned the game. With Fats, who insisted he was the prototype of the fictional character portrayed by Jackie Gleason in the movie "The Hustler," the only certainty was that you could never know for sure.
He learned it well enough to support himself without having to take an actual job, although he would have been far better off, his first wife said, had he been able to stay away from gambling at the dice tables. Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. Portrait.
“The sailors were there, easy marks and all that kind of stuff. So Wanderone started calling himself Minnesota Fats, and his fame and fortune rose.
“He probably did more for the sport of pool than any other human being alive,” pool wizard Fast Eddie Parker said. He won the shoot-out in the first three sets: Nine Ball (5-3), Eight Ball (5-2) and Rotation (5-2).
He got too well-known for that. She nursed him around the clock except, she said yesterday, when she would stay at home while her husband and her boyfriend went bar-hopping. I had a mother and three sisters who worshiped me, and when I was 2 years old they used to plop me in a bed with a jillion satin pillows and spray me with exotic perfumes and lilac water and then they would shoot me the grapes.". At one time, he weighed 245 pounds, but he was down to 175 in recent years.
Mr. Wanderone once exclaimed. Death of. As he told it in his 1966 biography, "The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies," by Tom Fox, "I've been eating like a sultan since I was 2 days old. Before rising to fame, the New York-born Fats hustled suckers at pool halls all over the country. “You could go into a restaurant the night after Mosconi and Fats had a match on television,” Burkman said.
Fats died of congestive heart failure, said his wife, Theresa Bell Wanderone, who already had his epitaph ready: “Beat everybody living on Earth. Nashville, Tennessee | Age 82. Although he had in fact made his living since the 1920's crisscrossing the country taking on all comers, until "The Hustler" came out in 1961, nobody beyond the small coterie of pool hustlers and their eager marks had heard of him. Although his frequent claim that he had never lost a game "when the cheese was on the table," was more fabrication than exaggeration, according to his first wife, Mr. Wanderone was in fact a master hustler who tended to be just as good as he needed to be when he needed to be. "He knew how to manage money," she said, insisting that while the late Willie Mosconi, the perennial professional champion, may have been correct in claiming to have won the vast majority of their games, "Fats always left with the money.
He became a household name in a sport that needed one badly, Conrad Burkman, publisher of National Billiard News, said. Minnesota Fats, (RUDOLF WALTER WANDERONE, JR.), U.S. billiards player (born Jan. 19, 1913?, New York, N.Y.—died Jan. 18, 1996, Nashville, Tenn.), popularized American billiards in the late 20th century as the prototypical smooth-talking pool hustler. Fats could shoot pool with either hand and often wore $100 bills in the handkerchief pocket of his suits. He was 82, or perhaps 95. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. He lived on and off in Nashville for much of his life. Here's how to track it in Washington and Idaho …, 'We're in that shift': 300-unit U District housing development will transform contaminated site and signals larger changes …, Supreme Court Justice Helen Whitener defends seat against former school administrator Richard Serns …, New health insurance plans available Nov. 1 through Washington Healthplanfinder. Receive email notification about people of national interest. It didn’t take long for Mosconi to prove his superior skills. He traced his interest in the sport to an uncle who used to take him to saloons and plop him down on the pool table when he was 2.
He could talk you out of a game rather than shoot you out of a game.”. Minnesota Fats.
“His big days in hustling were in the Second World War in Norfolk,” Burkman said.
"The pool table was my crib," he said. "Change a tire?" Fats’ career was interwoven with that of Willie Mosconi, who died in 1993. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds.
Read Complete Obituary, Celebrity Deaths from this Week in History, Record an Audio Memory — Use Your Phone — Free, "minn fats remember those games at the hermitage ron a". “He was … the Don Rickles of pool,” Parker said. January 19, 1913 - January 15, 1996.
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Minnesota Fats, a Real Hustler With a Pool Cue, Is Dead.
Mosconi was the technical adviser on the set of “The Hustler,” and the duo paired off in a series of matches on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” during the 1970s. According to both of his wives, Mr. Wanderone was a courtly man of the old school, one who, for example, would inevitably remind his opponents to watch their language whenever he would escort his first wife into some dingy pool hall. Famed pool player, dies at 82. A Life of Legal Larceny In the late 1950's, Fats settled down in Dowell, Illinois, near the site of the infamous Johnston City hustlers' tournaments of the '60s. Minnesota Fats’ widow said Tuesday that James and Mr. Fats met about 20 years ago, and he told her he was not her father. His larger-than-life personality matched his corpulent frame (1.78 m and as heavy as 136 kg [5 ft 10 in; 300 lb]) and his penchant for telling tall tales about …
Fats died of congestive heart failure, said his wife Theresa Bell Wanderone, who already has his epitaph ready: "Beat everybody living on earth.
Rudolf Walter Wanderone, the charming, slick-talking pool hustler who labored largely in obscurity until he reinvented himself in the 1960's by claiming to be Minnesota Fats, died yesterday … However, he learned the game. With Fats, who insisted he was the prototype of the fictional character portrayed by Jackie Gleason in the movie "The Hustler," the only certainty was that you could never know for sure.
He learned it well enough to support himself without having to take an actual job, although he would have been far better off, his first wife said, had he been able to stay away from gambling at the dice tables. Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. Portrait.
“The sailors were there, easy marks and all that kind of stuff. So Wanderone started calling himself Minnesota Fats, and his fame and fortune rose.
“He probably did more for the sport of pool than any other human being alive,” pool wizard Fast Eddie Parker said. He won the shoot-out in the first three sets: Nine Ball (5-3), Eight Ball (5-2) and Rotation (5-2).
He got too well-known for that. She nursed him around the clock except, she said yesterday, when she would stay at home while her husband and her boyfriend went bar-hopping. I had a mother and three sisters who worshiped me, and when I was 2 years old they used to plop me in a bed with a jillion satin pillows and spray me with exotic perfumes and lilac water and then they would shoot me the grapes.". At one time, he weighed 245 pounds, but he was down to 175 in recent years.
Minnesota Fats, the boastful billiard wizard whose real name was Rudolf Wanderone Jr., died Thursday, Jan. 18, 1996, at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. But Mr. Wanderone, a New York native whose various nicknames had in fact included New York Fats, knew an opportunity when he saw one. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Mosconi died in 1993 and Fats followed three years later. Mr. Wanderone, who had a weakness for Cadillacs and other expensive cars, was also known as an easy touch, one who never said no to a loan and who was so fond of animals he adopted dozens of them. Mr. Wanderone, whose nonstop braggadocio banter had made generations of pool hall denizens laugh, was as charming as ever. He went to work for a pool equipment company, spending so much time making personal appearances across the country and coming home so grumpy, his first wife said, that she finally divorced him in 1985. He suffered a heart attack in 1992.
If someone knows your name when you walk through the door it’s hard to hustle them.”. Within months after he decided to cash in on his borrowed fame, Mr. Wanderone, or Minnesota Fats, was a celebrity, appearing on television, making nationwide tours and passing out stamped autograph cards proclaiming himself the greatest pool player ever.
The character appears in Tevis' novel The Hustler (1959). His wife, Theresa, said the cause of death was congestive heart failure. Get the day’s top sports headlines and breaking news delivered to your inbox by subscribing here. May 19, 1883, Subscribe and log in to the Spokesman-Review to read and comment on this story, Editorial: With misgivings, vote Trump for president and Inslee for governor …, Wondering if your ballot's been counted?
Mosconi regularly beat Fats, but Fats usually won the battle of wit and charisma. “Mosconi would have beat his brains in and all everyone would say is, ‘Wow, I saw Minnesota Fats on TV last night.”’. Leaving a rich legacy, their rivalry and different styles only served to enhance the popularity of pocket billiards in America. Mr. Wanderone, who did not drink but was famous for his love of ice cream, pies or anything sweet, never apologized for his appetite. Fall means the onset of the cold and flu season.
Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. The early pampering perhaps explains why Mr. Wanderone, who once said he never picked up anything heavier than a silver dollar, grew up with a fierce aversion to physical labor, so much so that on their cross-country trips his wife was expected to do all the driving, carry all the luggage and even change the flat tires. Mr. Wanderone, whose father was a seagoing Swiss immigrant, was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan on Jan. 19, apparently in 1913 (although he once claimed to have been hustling as early as 1910).
Curiously, after he became Minnesota Fats, his new persona led to an actual job, something he had studiously avoided. Jackie Gleason’s character in the 1961 Paul Newman movie “The Hustler,” based on Wanderone, was called Minnesota Fats. Now St. Peter, rack 'em up. At 5 feet 10 inches, Mr. Wanderone had weighed as much as 300 pounds. Mr. Wanderone then settled in Nashville, settling in a subsidized celebrity suite at the Hermitage Hotel, where he spent his days feeding bread crumbs to the pigeons in a nearby park and his evenings stamping autographs in Music City honky-tonks. He is survived by two stepchildren. Both she and his first wife, Evaline, insisted that he would have been 83 today although Fats, who long claimed to have been born in 1900, had taken to calling the 1913 birth date that appeared in a 1966 biography his "baseball age.". Now, St. Peter, rack ‘em up.”, Various accounts listed Fats as anywhere from 82 to 95 years old, but as he boasted in 1988: “No one on this earth knows how old I am.”. He also knew how to take care of himself, the first Mrs. Wanderone said, recalling how she would sometimes be waiting in a convertible outside a backstreet pool room when her husband, having cleaned out the customers inside, would be forced to fight his way out. In a career in which he may or may not have sailed around the world six times, survived two shipwrecks and hobnobbed, as he claimed, with the likes of Clark Gable, Arnold Rothstein, Damon Runyon and Al Capone, his age was as slippery as his moves around a pool table. It was an index of Mr. Wanderone's grasp of human psychology and his own impish appeal that he realized that it didn't make any difference whether he had been Minnesota Fats before the 1960's. Minnesota Fats, a hustler who blustered his way out of smoky barrooms to become the world's most famous pool player, died Thursday. He certainly looked like a Minnesota Fats, or at least some Fats.
Mr. Wanderone once exclaimed. Death of. As he told it in his 1966 biography, "The Bank Shot and Other Great Robberies," by Tom Fox, "I've been eating like a sultan since I was 2 days old. Before rising to fame, the New York-born Fats hustled suckers at pool halls all over the country. “You could go into a restaurant the night after Mosconi and Fats had a match on television,” Burkman said.
Fats died of congestive heart failure, said his wife, Theresa Bell Wanderone, who already had his epitaph ready: “Beat everybody living on Earth. Nashville, Tennessee | Age 82. Although he had in fact made his living since the 1920's crisscrossing the country taking on all comers, until "The Hustler" came out in 1961, nobody beyond the small coterie of pool hustlers and their eager marks had heard of him. Although his frequent claim that he had never lost a game "when the cheese was on the table," was more fabrication than exaggeration, according to his first wife, Mr. Wanderone was in fact a master hustler who tended to be just as good as he needed to be when he needed to be. "He knew how to manage money," she said, insisting that while the late Willie Mosconi, the perennial professional champion, may have been correct in claiming to have won the vast majority of their games, "Fats always left with the money.
He became a household name in a sport that needed one badly, Conrad Burkman, publisher of National Billiard News, said. Minnesota Fats, (RUDOLF WALTER WANDERONE, JR.), U.S. billiards player (born Jan. 19, 1913?, New York, N.Y.—died Jan. 18, 1996, Nashville, Tenn.), popularized American billiards in the late 20th century as the prototypical smooth-talking pool hustler. Fats could shoot pool with either hand and often wore $100 bills in the handkerchief pocket of his suits. He was 82, or perhaps 95. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. He lived on and off in Nashville for much of his life. Here's how to track it in Washington and Idaho …, 'We're in that shift': 300-unit U District housing development will transform contaminated site and signals larger changes …, Supreme Court Justice Helen Whitener defends seat against former school administrator Richard Serns …, New health insurance plans available Nov. 1 through Washington Healthplanfinder. Receive email notification about people of national interest. It didn’t take long for Mosconi to prove his superior skills. He traced his interest in the sport to an uncle who used to take him to saloons and plop him down on the pool table when he was 2.
He could talk you out of a game rather than shoot you out of a game.”. Minnesota Fats.
“His big days in hustling were in the Second World War in Norfolk,” Burkman said.
"The pool table was my crib," he said. "Change a tire?" Fats’ career was interwoven with that of Willie Mosconi, who died in 1993. Gifts processed in this system are not tax deductible, but are predominately used to help meet the local financial requirements needed to receive national matching-grant funds.
Read Complete Obituary, Celebrity Deaths from this Week in History, Record an Audio Memory — Use Your Phone — Free, "minn fats remember those games at the hermitage ron a". “He was … the Don Rickles of pool,” Parker said. January 19, 1913 - January 15, 1996.
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Minnesota Fats, a Real Hustler With a Pool Cue, Is Dead.
Mosconi was the technical adviser on the set of “The Hustler,” and the duo paired off in a series of matches on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” during the 1970s. According to both of his wives, Mr. Wanderone was a courtly man of the old school, one who, for example, would inevitably remind his opponents to watch their language whenever he would escort his first wife into some dingy pool hall. Famed pool player, dies at 82. A Life of Legal Larceny In the late 1950's, Fats settled down in Dowell, Illinois, near the site of the infamous Johnston City hustlers' tournaments of the '60s. Minnesota Fats’ widow said Tuesday that James and Mr. Fats met about 20 years ago, and he told her he was not her father. His larger-than-life personality matched his corpulent frame (1.78 m and as heavy as 136 kg [5 ft 10 in; 300 lb]) and his penchant for telling tall tales about …
Fats died of congestive heart failure, said his wife Theresa Bell Wanderone, who already has his epitaph ready: "Beat everybody living on earth.
Rudolf Walter Wanderone, the charming, slick-talking pool hustler who labored largely in obscurity until he reinvented himself in the 1960's by claiming to be Minnesota Fats, died yesterday … However, he learned the game. With Fats, who insisted he was the prototype of the fictional character portrayed by Jackie Gleason in the movie "The Hustler," the only certainty was that you could never know for sure.
He learned it well enough to support himself without having to take an actual job, although he would have been far better off, his first wife said, had he been able to stay away from gambling at the dice tables. Give directly to The Spokesman-Review's Northwest Passages community forums series -- which helps to offset the costs of several reporter and editor positions at the newspaper -- by using the easy options below. Portrait.
“The sailors were there, easy marks and all that kind of stuff. So Wanderone started calling himself Minnesota Fats, and his fame and fortune rose.
“He probably did more for the sport of pool than any other human being alive,” pool wizard Fast Eddie Parker said. He won the shoot-out in the first three sets: Nine Ball (5-3), Eight Ball (5-2) and Rotation (5-2).
He got too well-known for that. She nursed him around the clock except, she said yesterday, when she would stay at home while her husband and her boyfriend went bar-hopping. I had a mother and three sisters who worshiped me, and when I was 2 years old they used to plop me in a bed with a jillion satin pillows and spray me with exotic perfumes and lilac water and then they would shoot me the grapes.". At one time, he weighed 245 pounds, but he was down to 175 in recent years.