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| Name | Jean Balukas |
| First Name | Jean |
| Last Name | Balukas |
| Occupation | Pool Player |
| Birthday | June 28 |
| Birth Year | 1959 |
| Place of Birth | Brooklyn |
| Home Town | New York |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
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.
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.
Jean Balukas Net Worth
Jean 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: January 13, 2024)
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Pool Player |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
Balukas 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 Terminal and thereafter appearing on television, including on CBS’s primetime television show, I’ve Got a Secret. At just 9 years old she placed 5th in the 1969 U.S. Open straight pool championship, and placed 4th and 3rd respectively in the following two U.S. Opens. From that early start, Balukas completely dominated women’s professional pool during the 1970s and 1980s.
On August 18, 1972 at 13 years of age Balukas won the women’s division of the U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship, along the way defeating five-time champion Dorothy Wise and taking home a prize of $1,500. Balukas was the U.S Open’s youngest winner ever and by a large margin. She roundly defeated her opponent in the finals, Madelyn Whitlow of Detroit, Michigan, with a score of 75–32 in 44 innings . Reporting on the competition, The New York Times stated: “Miss Balukas showed signs of strong title contention throughout the tournament play as she defeated six opponents with precision shooting and near flawless strategy.”
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In 1966, McGown staged a billiards exhibition at New York City’s Grand Central Terminal. With her parents’ permission, he brought along the 6-year-old Balukas, where she participated in the spectacle. The attention this generated, coupled with her prodigious talent, landed her a guest appearance in 1966 on WNEW-TV’s Wonderama. Later that year, Balukas, along with her younger sister Laura, appeared on CBS’s popular show I’ve Got a Secret. None of the panelists were successful in guessing that the 7- and 5-year-old sisters were pool enthusiasts.
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Jean Balukas. You may help us to build the dating records for Jean Balukas!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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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
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Wielding an ivory-detailed cue made especially for her in 1965 by renowned cuemaker George Balabushka, at 5 and 6 years of age she would practice straight pool to 50 points after family dinners with her father’s encouragement but not participation. Many have assumed that she had been tutored in the game. However, Balukas states, “when they find out that my father doesn’t play, many people think I must have learned the game from Frank McGown. That isn’t true. I taught myself to play pool.”
In 1973, at 14, Balukas successfully defended her straight pool U.S. Open title, defeating runner-up Donna Ries, a psychologist from Kansas City, Missouri, with a final score of 75–72 in 42 innings and a high run of 26, earning her a $2,000 purse. Earlier in the tournament she trounced Mieko Harada, a housewife from Kyoto, Japan, 75-1 in 20 innings and with a 25-ball high run. In the 1974 U.S. Open held at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago, Balukas defended her title, again beating out Harada but by a much closer, nailbiting 100-99 final score. This was Balukas’ third straight U.S. Open title at the age of 15. The close finale echoed the results seen in the men’s division, where Joe Balsis defeated Jim Rempe 200-199 for the men’s crown.
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Jean 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.
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