Jean Balukas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jean Balukas
Occupation	Pool Player
Date Of Birth	Jun 28, 1959(1959-06-28)
Age	65
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Cancer

Jean Balukas Biography

Jean Balukas is one of the most popular and richest Pool Player who was born on June 28, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

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. At least through the 1990s, when Allison Fisher began her ascendancy, Balukas was widely acknowledged as the sole candidate for greatest female player ever. 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 [20th] Century.

As early as the late 1960s, Balukas was performing exhibition matches with some of the top male players of the era, including Willie Mosconi and Irving Crane, who were together considered between 1941 and 1956 the “best in the world, flat out”. In 1975, she again played the legendary Willie Mosconi on CBS’ “Challenge of the Sexes” in both eight-ball and nine-ball competition. At 62 Mosconi was well past his prime, but a handicap was nevertheless given to the eagle-eyed youngster, allowing her all the breaks and the first shot regardless of whether she had made a ball or not on the break. Mosconi lost at both disciplines. She later would play televised “Battle of the Sexes” matches with Rudolph Wanderone a/k/a Minnesota Fats in 1977, Ray Martin in 1979 and with Steve Mizerak in 1986.

Jean Balukas Net Worth

Jean Balukas is one of the richest Pool Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jean Balukas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The following year Balukas appeared in an exhibition match at the bygone Carom Club, then located at 1697 Broadway in Manhattan. A second-grader at the time, according to her mother, Peggy, she did her homework and took a nap before appearing at the scheduled match. In advertisements for the match, Balukas was billed as “the Little Princess of Pocket Billiards.” She was described by a reporter present as “a little girl with honey-blond hair…wearing a short yellow dress and green leotards…who resembles a young Shirley Temple.” To great applause she edged out her opponent, Roland DeMarco, a pool enthusiast and the President of Finch College. The final score was 50 to 42.

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Balukas won the U.S. 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. 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.

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Duncan Ranked on the list of most popular Pool Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jean Balukas celebrates birthday on June 28 of every year.

In 1975, when she was 15 years old, Balukas was already described as the “best female pool player in the world”. By 1987, Balukas’s dominance of women’s professional pool was so complete that it was described as “breathtaking” in its scope by The New York Times. Announcers had long since stopped calling Balukas “the Little Princess,” but presented her as “the Queen”. By that time she had won the World Straight Pool Championship women’s division eight of the prior nine years, and over the same time period, every single women’s professional tournament in which she competed — 16 in all. She had been honored as BCA Player of the Year five times. In 1985 became the second woman (after Dorothy Wise) to be inducted into the BCA Hall of Fame, with the additional honor of being its youngest inductee, at just under 27 years of age. In 1999, Balukas was ranked number fifteen on Billiard Digest’s Fifty Greatest Players of the Century.