Mike Massey

For the baseball player, see Mike Massey (baseball).

Michael "Mike" Massey (born April 9, 1947) is an American professional pocket billiards (pool) player, best known as a trick shot artist since the late 1970s, and has given substantial visibility to the sport by traveling the globe to perform exhibitions and compete in a variety of disciplines. He has won professional national and international tournaments in trick shot competition, nine-ball, eight-ball, straight pool (14.1 continuous), and one-pocket, but has been even more influential in the sport as an accomplished instructor, consultant and fund raiser.^[1] From 1989 to 1991 he served as a contributing editor for The Snap Magazine. Massey has been nicknamed "Tennessee Tarzan", but lives in Midway, Utah.^[2]

Massey was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame on April 7, 2005.^[3] For 2007, he was ranked #8 in Pool & Billiard Magazine's "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll.^[4]

Titles and achievements

• 2007 Pool & Billiard Magazine Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players, #8
• 2005 induction into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame
• 2004 Trick Shot Magic Champion
• 2003 Trick Shot Magic Champion
• 2003 World Artistic Pool Champion
• 2002 World Artistic Pool Champion
• 2002 BCA North American Artistic Pool Champion
• 2001 Trick Shot Magic Champion
• 2000 World Artistic Pool Champion
• 2000 BCA North American Artistic Pool Champion
• 2000 World Artistic Pool Champion
• 2000 Trick Shot Magic Champion
• 1996 Snooker World Trick Shot Champion
• 1992 Snooker World Trick Shot Champion
• 1997 Senior Nine-ball Masters Champion
• 1996 winning team member in the Mosconi Cup, Team USA
• 1996 Dutch National Eight-ball Champion
• 1996 Hall of Fame Eight-ball Champion
• High runs of 9 racks of nine-ball in tournament play, and 13 racks in challenge match play
• High run of 224 balls in straight pool
• 11,230 balls pocketed in marathon shooting (24 hours)
• 8,090 balls pocketed in marathon shooting with one arm
• World record for most racks of nine-ball run in 24-hour period: 330 racks on live television in Austria, complete runs 1 through 9 (9 balls pocketed on the break or in combination shot did not count)^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ http://www.insidepool.com/article411.html^{[clarification needed]}
2. ^ "2007 World Championship (The Lider Club – St. Petersburg – Russia) December 5–8, 2007". TrickShotProductions.com. Watertown, MA: Artistic Pool & Trick Shot Association. 2007. http://www.trickshotproductions.com/tournaments/2007wpawc.pdf. Retrieved 2008-08-27. ^{[dead link]}
3. ^ http://www.bca-pool.com/marketing/releases/2005/022005pr.shtml^{[clarification needed]}
4. ^ "The Survey Says...: Pool & Billiard Magazine's 22nd Annual Player and Fan Poll". Pool & Billiard Magazine (Summerville, South Carolina: Sports Publications) 26 (2): p. 14. February 2008. ISSN 1049-2852. 

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