Willie Mosconi Autographs
William Joseph Mosconi (/mɒˈskoʊni/; June 27, 1913 – September 17, 1993) was an American professional pool player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mosconi is widely considered one of the greatest pool players of all time. Between the years of 1941 and 1957, he won the World Straight Pool Championship nineteen times. For most of the 20th century, his name was essentially synonymous with pool in North America – he was nicknamed "Mr. Pocket Billiards" – and he was among the first Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees. Mosconi pioneered and regularly employed numerous trick shots, set many records, and helped to popularize pool as a national recreation activity.
During the 1940s and 1950s, the pocket billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14.1 continuous, a form of pool considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's fast tournament game nine-ball. Mosconi set the officially-recognized straight pool high run world record of 526 consecutive balls in 1954.
Mosconi's family lived above a pool hall that William's father, Joseph Mosconi, owned. Despite that, Joseph was strongly opposed to his son playing pocket billiards, preferring he become a Vaudeville performer like his cousins, the dancers Charles and Louis Mosconi. He tried to keep his young son away from the game by hiding the billiard balls, but Willie improvised by practicing with an old broomstick and small potatoes from his mother's kitchen.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Willie Mosconi (Willie Mosconi Owned and Autographed Palmer Pool Cue WOW!!!! w Hard Leather Case) was sold in January 2013 for $1,225.00 while the cheapest item (Willie Mosconi Signed Autographed Copy Pocket Billards) found a new owner for $0.99 in July 2011. The month with the most items sold (23) was April 2025 with an average selling price of $84.90 for an autographed item of Willie Mosconi. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in January 2013 with $1,225.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was July 2011. In average, an autographed item from Willie Mosconi is worth $53.95.
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