At just 9 years old she placed 5th in the 1969 U.S. Described as a “trailblazer, a child prodigy, a loner who rebelled against dress codes for women-the pool equivalent of Billie Jean King”, she is a five-time Billiards Congress of America (BCA) Player of the Year, was the youngest inductee into the BCA Hall of Fame and the second woman given the honor, and was ranked fifteenth on Billiard Digest’s Fifty Greatest Players of the Century.īalukas was considered a prodigy, coming to the public’s attention first at 6 years of age at a pool exhibition held at New York City’s Grand Central Station and thereafter appearing on television, including on CBS’s primetime television show, I’ve Got a Secret. At least through the 1990s, when Allison Fisher began her ascendancy, Balukas was widely acknowledged as the sole candidate for greatest female player ever. Jean Balukas (born June 28, 1959) is an American pool player from Brooklyn, New York, and ranks among the stellar players in the history of the sport. A 6-year-old Jean Balukas performing in an exhibition in Grand Central Station (Photo: Public Domain)
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