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Cliff Thorburn
Canadian snooker player (born 1948)
Clifford Charles Devlin ThorburnCM (born 16 January 1948) is a Canadian retired professional snooker player. Nicknamed "The Grinder" because of his slow, determined style of play, he won the World Snooker Championship in 1980, defeating Alex Higgins 18–16 in the final. He is generally recognised as the sport's first world champion from outside the United Kingdom—since Australian Horace Lindrum's 1952 title is usually disregarded—and he remains the only world champion from the Americas. He was runner-up in two other world championships, losing 21–25 to John Spencer in the 1977 final and 6–18 to Steve Davis in the 1983 final. At the 1983 tournament, Thorburn became the first player to make a maximum break in a World Championship match, achieving the feat in his second-round encounter with Terry Griffiths.
Ranked world number one during the 1981–82 season, Thorburn was the first non-British player to top the snooker world rankings. He won the invitational Masters in 1983, 1985, and 1986, making him the first player to win the tournament three times and the first to retain the title. He retired from the main professional tour in 1996. Inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 and the Snooker Hall of Fame in 2014,
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Mordecai Richler’s “On Snooker” – Who’s the “Real Life Rocky” of the Green Baize?
Mordecai Richler’s Witty & Sarcastic Take on the World of Snooker…
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There aren’t too many snooker books that are written in the style of Mordecai Richler. His style is witty, sarcastic, and at times – patronizing. It’s one long rambling rant – organized into what seem like chapters.
If you didn’t know the man Mordecai, you would think he was taking the Michael out of the game’s “characters” when reading this book. Some say there are no characters in the game now. Well, that may or may not be the case, but, back then, there were a heap of characters to marvel at!
From the likes of the flamboyant Alex Hurricane Higgins to the copious pint-drinking Bill Werbeniuk, to the flashy Canadian in the white suit Kirk Stevens.
There were plenty of them to entertain the masses and cause a stir on and off the table.
The Snooker Scene, led by Clive Everton, is described by Richler as “Sanhedrin” – in other words, a clique. There are great anecdotes darted around the book, and even Sheffield, the home city of snooker, is given life to its own sarcastic wit.
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John Dunning (1927-2009) (England) - '16' (1976-77)
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