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Jimmy Reid (August 23, 1946, to September 28, 2016) was an American professional pool player. He was inducted into the One Pocket Hall of Fame in 2008 for the Lifetime of Pool in Action Award at the OnePocket.org Hall of Fame banquet in Louisville, Kentucky. His nicknames were "Hippie Jimmy" and "Diamond Jim."
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Early Days
Born in Birmingham, Alabama. Jimmy was raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, an old New England fishing port, Jimmy Reid frequented the Olympia Billiard Room aka "The Mines," which is where veteran pool players such as Boston Shorty, Bob Ingersol, and "Cuban Joe" Valdez frequented.
He went on the road shooting pool as a teenager during pool's golden years. By the time he entered the Johnston City pool tournaments in Johnston City, Illinois, produced by brothers George and Paulie Jansco in the 1960s, he was playing championship-level pool.
Professional career
At the Lexington All Star 9-Ball Championship in 1994, Jimmy Reid was voted as the "Best Money Player in the World for the previous 25 years," from 1969 to 1994 by his peers, Johnny Archer, Francisco Bustamante, Wade Crane, Kim Davenport, Roger Griffis, Buddy Hall, Allen Hopkins, Bob Ogburn, Efren Reyes, Mike Sigel, Earl Strickland, Nick Varner, and C.J. Wiley, who were some of the competitors present at this event.