Alfredo de Oro

Alfredo de Oro was a Cuban professional carom billiards and pool player, born on 28 April 1863 in Manzanillo, Cuba, who died on 23 April 1948. He made his first public appearance as a professional in the World Fifteen-ball Pool Championship held in New York in February 1887, and in November 1910 he won the World Continuous Pool Championship against Jerome R. Keogh, making a highest recorded run of 81. He held world titles in several disciplines, winning the World Continuous Pool Championship twenty nine times and the World Three-cushion Championship twenty times, and he was ranked number 4 on the Billiards Digest list of the 50 Greatest Players of the Century. In 1967 he became the first non-American inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame.