Earl Strickland

     Hello everyone welcome to my page, the game of pool has taken me to many places since I left the pool room in the small farm town in North Carolina. Who would ever think that a farm boy could learn to play pool the way I have. Sometimes I like living in the past when we were on the road in the 70's, it was so much fun, and the experience was great. You would walk in a strange place and ask someone to play, no cell phones and the player never ask who you were or how good you were. everything was an adventure free love and money, people were naiver and it made playing pool more fun. Times have changed and the game has been up and down since I have been in the game. Pool is a game that no one can control, you think in control, but you are not. I play straight pool everyday what an amazing game, like a kid in a sandbox when I practice straight pool can't get enough. I often wonder if I am really as talented as people are in other sports, I guess I will never no. Because no one really cares but me. I know in my mind and heart that straight pool is just as hard as any sport don't care what people think about pocket billiards. When I run a hundred or two hundred pool balls, I know it takes knowledge and training just like any other sport. We need to make straight pool the professional game again and play total offense no defense then will be a sport again. I wish everyone could feel what I feel for pool, the game consumed me from time I started, and it still has a grip on me. You know never could understand why they call pool a misspent youth, isn't every sport.