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Pots of Gold: A History of Snooker

Pots of Gold: A History of Snooker

Hendon, David

Paperback

Billiards

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1800756569
ISBN13: 9781800756564
Publisher: Swift Press
Published: Sep 25 2025
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Snooker is a British success story, a working-class game which became a multi-million pound professional sport, exported to the world. A sublime test of skill and nerve, it has fascinated succeeding generations of players and spectators.

In this new history of the sport, David Hendon shows how the fortunes of snooker have mirrored wider changes in British society. Beginning as an upper-class pursuit invented in the British Raj, snooker was taken up in the working men's clubs of industrial Britain. It nearly ceased to exist as an organised sport in the late 1950s, before reviving and becoming big business in the Thatcher era: 18.5m people watched the famous 1985 World Championship final. Since then, it has become a global sport, most notably in China and the Far East.

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