Talk:Baseball pocket billiards

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Why the long-form "baseball pocket billiards" instead of "baseball pool"? — SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 03:51, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Every source indicates that the game itself is called baseball pocket billiards. Another words, it's like cowboy pool; wheras you would call nine ball, nine ball and identify it as a pool game, cowboy pool is called "cowboy pool"; so too with this but with pocket billiards. I have no confirmation of why the name developed in this way but I can guess: the name needed to be distinguished from the national pastime, so it needed to be referred to always (except maybe inside the pool room) with a disambiguator. Baseball pool doesn't work because baseball pools, that is gambling pools, are common as dirt (do a google or newspaper search and you'll see what I mean).--Fuhghettaboutit 13:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC)