Cornbread Red: Pool's Greatest Money Player takes the reader into the life of pool's legendary money player. He was a champion, a hustler, a gambler, and sometimes a con man. He started as the son of a sharecropper and became a famous and feared money player. This book is action-packed, entertaining, and easy to read, with an inside look into the Johnson City tournaments and the world-famous Rack, where millions of dollars changed hands. Top players from around the country came to try, but few left with the cash. Cornbread Red ended up with a lot of it, only to blow much of it in future match ups. Like Red said, "I don't live by the month, by the week, or even by the day -- I live by the game."

450 pages, hardcover color 8.5 x 11 DELUXE 2022 EDITION. An informed peek at the netherworld of pool hustling with over 300 photos and composed of the comprehensive, personal experiences of the life-long, fellow hustler, Freddy "The Beard" Bentivegna, and includes running commentary from many of the constituents themselves. The original 2013 masterpiece enhanced with "Pool Halls" essay by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet, select photographs from the late Helaine Garren's "Bensinger's" series from 1971, Introduction by Freddy's daughter, Catherine Adami and a Tribute Section celebrating the pool characters lost from 2012-2022. This is: "A rowdy assortment of anecdotes, insights, encounter and esoteric knowledge of the legendary pool hustlers of the second half of the twentieth century." The late Freddy Bentivegna went head to head with most of the hustlers in this book, been busted, won big, and lived the life. In addition, he was a colorful and talented story teller! Hard Cover DELUXE EDITION