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A relative comes forward with new biographical info and rare photos of Minnesota Fats and his folks.
By R.A.
Dyer
Fig.Image of minnesota fats biography etta1: Fats and his wife, Evelyn, right, visit his mother, Rosa, in this never-before-seen photograph from 1944. |
A few years back, I struck out for New York City with a mission: I wanted to discover something new and true about pool's most iconic figure, Minnesota Fats.
And so I visited his old Washington Heights neighborhood, and I spent some time in the New York Public Library, and I visited with pool historian Charles Ursitti. During the trip I discovered the location of Fats' old home in Washington Heights, and I found clear records of Fats' early family life from documents in the U.S.
Census Bureau database. The result was a column in the December 2005 issue, "In Search of the Real Rudolf Wanderone."
But eventually I hit a dead end. I found references to his family, his h