Hippie Jimmy Reid
American pool player
Jimmy Reid (August 23, 1946 – September 28, 2016) was an American professional pool player. He was given the Lifetime of Pool in Action Award at the One Pocket Hall of Fame banquet in Louisville, Kentucky. His nicknames were "Hippie Jimmy" and "Diamond Jim".
Career
Born in Birmingham, Alabama. Reid was raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts, an old New England fishing port. He 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. He later connected with Keith McCready in California.
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