![]() ![]() If you read our previous blog titled Meet the Hall of Fame Dorothy Wise you’ve probably made the connection when Jean was 13-year-old she took her first championship win against Dorothy, bringing Dorothy’s 5-year-winning streak come to a close. Making Jean the second woman in the BCA Hall of Fame. Jean Balukas was introduced into the BCA Hall of Fame in 1985. She quit the sport amidst controversy in 1988 while at the height of her ability, due to a dispute over her conduct in a match at the World Open Nine-ball Championship of that year. Open seven years in a row from 1972 through 1978, accumulating six world championship titles, had well over 100 professional competition first-place finishes with 38 majors to her name, had a streak of 16 first-place finishes in women’s professional tournaments, and was the only woman to compete on equal footing with men in professional play in her era. With the Covid virus situation, the 2020 banquet was not held, meaning the 2020 inductees Chuck Evans, Terry Osborne, Bob Jackson and Doc Rice will also be honored at the November banquet. From that early start, Jean completely dominated women’s professional pool during the 1970s and 1980s.īalukas won the U.S. ![]() Open straight pool championship and placed 4th and 3rd respectively in the following two U.S. Balukas was known as “trailblazer, a child prodigy, a loner who rebelled against dress codes for women-the pool equivalent of Billie Jean King”.Īt just 9 years Jean placed 5th in the 1969 U.S. Hall of Fame Billiards can be contacted via phone at 58 for pricing, hours and directions. In addition to the actual tournament which will take place on Saturday March 2 & Sunday March 3, there will also be a Hall of Fame. According to her, she was self-taught, she learned how to play at home since she didn’t feel comfortable playing at pool halls especially since it was still uncommon to see women players. Hall of Fame Billiards is located at 5775 E Thirteen Mile Rd in Warren, Michigan 48092. Snookers Billiards Sports Bar & Grill (Providence R.I.) and Mike Zuglan's Joss Northeast 9-Ball Tour are proud to present the 10th Annual New England Pool & Billiards Hall Of Fame Ray Desell Memorial 9-Ball Open. Frank, her dad’s partner was a professional player but he didn’t teach her how to play either. A common misconception is that her dad taught her how to play pool but the truth is he didn’t play. Jean’s father Albert and his business partner Frank McGown owned a forty-eight-table pool hall called The Ovington Lounge in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn.Īt 5 and 6 years of age, she would practice pool after family dinners. Her parents had strategically bought a 9-foot pool table for their home in hopes that it would keep her four brothers out of local pool rooms. Jean was introduced to play when she was 4 years of age. Jean Balukas was born in 1959 in Brooklyn, New York.
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