Have Pool Cue, Will Travel—The Story of St. Louie Louie, a Local Legend.
Our American Stories
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4.3 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Mark O'Brian, a listener of Our American Stories, shares the story of St. Louie Louie—one of the greatest pool players to ever grace the scene—from his rise to his rather untimely fall.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | This is our American stories. |
| 0:17.8 | Up next, a story from Mark O'Brien who listens to us on K-M-O-X-A-M in St. Louis. |
| 0:25.3 | And this story is about one of his personal heroes. Mark is the author of Have Pool Q Will Travel, |
| 0:31.8 | which outlines this true character. Here's our own Monty Montgomery with the story. |
| 0:42.6 | One, two, two, four. True character. Here's our own Monty Montgomery with the story. Pool is a sport with a rich history to it, and today it's one of the most popular participation |
| 0:47.7 | sports in America, and there are countless names which have gone down as the best players |
| 0:52.7 | of the game, including St. Louis |
| 0:55.2 | Louis. Here's Mark O'Brien with more on this interest in character. |
| 0:59.9 | I met Louis when I was 15, and that was in 1970. It was at a small pool room in St. Louis. I had heard |
| 1:10.4 | some stories about someone named St. Louis |
| 1:12.7 | I heard him over and over again. I never met him. I thought he would be a guy about 50 or 60 |
| 1:19.5 | years old. And one day I'm in the pool room practicing. And a guy about 21 walked in and you would have thought |
| 1:28.7 | a celebrity walked in |
| 1:30.2 | all the old timers in the pool room |
| 1:33.1 | right about the same time they said |
| 1:35.1 | it's Louis |
| 1:36.6 | it's Louis and everybody shook his hand |
| 1:39.8 | hugged him blah blah blah |
| 1:41.7 | and from that day on |
| 1:43.7 | he became my hero he became my hero. |
| 1:48.0 | Louis was one of the most charismatic people I've ever met. |
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