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The true story of a world super star hustler.
Titanic Thompson spent most of his life courting and hustling celebrities with biggest,
most elaborate schemes he could conceive. He won millions in fascinating proposition games
that stagger the imagination.
Titanic Thompson was one of the world's greatest Gamblers and Golf Hustlers.
Thompson was a master with a deck of cards, able to effortlessly stack decks, palm aces, and deal seconds. He was a crack pistol shot and often hit a silver dollar in mid air on a bet. He could offer you a proposition so fool proof that you'd be an idiot not to take the wager. That's when you and your money were soon parted.
The greatest golf hustling book ever written. When asked if he would ever turn
pro, he said, "I could not afford the cut in pay."
Thompson was a hustler, plain and simple. He became the subject of fact and fantasy in his day, the topic of conversation at gaming tables and golf courses all over the country. If you've never heard of him, just ask someone a little older, who's been around golf a number of years. Chances are he'll know a Titanic story.
Quite interesting reading.
New unread condition. Soft cover.
Very hard to find.
Titanic Thompson was the kind of man legends are built of. A gambler, hustler, schemer, he was a legend in his own time.
Who else could hustle Al Capone twice and live to tell about it.
He began his life in Rogers, Arkansas in 1892 and ended it in Fort Worth, Texas in 1974. The incredible eighty-six years in between were chronicled in bits and pieces by such notables as Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell and Oscar Fraley, the writer who gave the world Elliott Ness and the Untouchables.
Titanic's life story has been used to create hundreds of articles and several celebrated fictional works.
Titanic Thompson's life was always surrounded by an aura of legend and myth. Had he been an actor he would have received an Emmy award. As a big-time sports pro he would have been in several halls of fame.
Ti was no different in one respect than the celebrities he courted and hustled - he had an ego as big as the elaborate propositions his genius conceived.
He won millions of dollars in schemes that would stagger the imagination. He lost millions the same way.
Author Stowers has tried to sift fact from fiction. Either way, the Unsinkable Titanic Thompson seems to emerge the winner.
 
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