Hustlers Days review
Hustlers Days is a book of biographies about the greatest pool hustlers and players that ever lived from the 1920's till today. It tells how the three most famous hustlers, Rudolph Wanderone Jr. aka Minnesota Fats, Jake Breit aka Jersey Red, and Luther Clement Lassiter Jr. aka Wimpy Lassiter, lived and what they went through. In R. A. Dyer's book, Hustler Days, he writes about these great pool bums careers from start to finish. Minnesota Fats (Rudolph Wanderone Jr.) was born on January 19, 1913 in Manhattan, New York and died January 15, 1996 in Nashville, Tennessee. Like many of all the great hustlers, Fats had no childhood, he spent his days in the pool halls learning everything he could about the game and hustled people out of their dollars. Fats dropped out of PS 132 and by the age of eight he was throwing dice and gambling, at age thirteen he beat a 9-ball champion by the name of Cowboy Weston, and at age 16 he was hustling the shirts off of peoples backs without them even knowing it.
But after a while a movie called "The Hustler" came out and boomed the poolroom population again. People would start noticing him and looking up to him, and soon they gave him the name Jersey Red. At Little Egypt, IL, Elizabeth City, NC, Norfolk, VA, and other great cities they would be making thousands and thousands of dollars. Wimpy Lassiter (Luther Clement Lassiter Jr. His mother was crazy, she would always be moving from one house to another every so often. But after World War II the percent in "Permanent Bachelors" (Hustlers) would decrease, men began to marry and the pool halls began to empty. He would become one of the best hustlers, the one-pocket prince, he was unstoppable, he couldnt be beat. Wimpy lassiter had a normal childhood, playing baseball with his firends and playing pool on cheap home made tables. Being a hustler back then meant easy money. Since he was underage, he would work around the bars and the owners would let him play on the empty tables. Back then the dollar had a much greater value then it does today. He started out with eleven cents, and at the end of the day, he would walk out with seventy dollars. To some people these hustlers where heros of the game and are important for bringing popularity to the sport of pool. Fats never liked to work hard or to waste his time learning, he liked to play pool and like every other hustler, he made an honest living doing absolutly nothing.
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