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OBITUARY: Rudolph Wanderone
Disdained by the top tournament players but loved with a wink by nearly everyone else, Rudolph Wanderone, known for much of his life as "Minnesota Fats", was America's billiard character of the century.
He was fat, at pounds, but he wasn't from Minnesota. In like fashion, much of his life was lived in half-truth. So, when Wanderone died last week of heart failure, he left many fans and not a few journalists wondering whether he was really the vivid "Minnesota Fats" character of Walter Tevis's atmospheric novel The Hustler, portrayed on the screen by Jackie Gleason in the film.
He wasn't, but in a stroke of marketing genius, when the motion picture was released he immediately proclaimed himself to be that fictional player. He possessed just enough skill, the correct girth and more than ample swagger to convince audiences that he was the genuine article. So persuasive was his story that Tevis was forced to add a note denying it in later editions of The Hustler.
Born, by the most reliable accounts, in to a Swiss family in the Washington Heights section of New York City, Wanderone (nicknamed "Roodle" as a child and later "New York Fats") was exposed to pocket and three- cushion billiards at the age of four and claimed to have started playing for mon
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Minnesota Fats (Rudolph Director Wanderone, Jr.)
(b. 19 Jan ? demand Brooklyn Place, New York; d. 18 January squash up Nashville, Tennessee), pool operator who popularized the diversion in description s.
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Rudolph Wanderone
Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone, Jr. | |
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| Born | January 19, New York City, U.S. |
| Died | January 15, () (aged&#;82) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Other&#;names | Minnesota Fats New York Fats Broadway Fats Chicago Fats Double-Smart Triple-Smart Fats |
| Occupation | Poolhustler |
Rudolf Walter Wanderone (néWanderon Jr.; January 19, &#;– January 15, ),[1][2] popularly known as Minnesota Fats or New York Fats, was an American professional pool player. He never won a world championship.
His first nickname was "Brooklyn Fats" and then "New York Fats." Wanderone named himself "Minnesota Fats" after the character in the movie The Hustler. Wanderone was the host of a national television show, "Celebrity Billiards," during the s. He is a member of the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.[3]
References
[change | change source]- ↑"'Rudolf W. Wanderon' Waymark". . Seattle: Groundspeak. January 26, Retrieved Includes three photos of his grave marker; provides birth and death dates, and legal surname spelling.
- ↑ United States Federal Census ("Rudolph Wanderon" entry in New York City (the only one there)&#;ed.). Washington, D.C.: United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 1