Hippie Jimmy Reid

Jimmy Reid, nicknamed Hippie Jimmy and Diamond Jim, was an American professional pool player, born in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 23, 1946, who died on September 28, 2016. He was raised in the New England fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he frequented the Olympia Billiard Room, known as The Mines, and he went on the road shooting pool as a teenager during pool golden years. By the time he entered the Johnston City pool tournaments in Illinois in the 1960s he was playing championship-level pool, and he later connected with Keith McCready in California. His titles ran from the 1974 Southwest Open 9-Ball Championship to the 1985 U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship and European and German opens in the 1990s. He received the Lifetime of Pool in Action Award from the One Pocket Hall of Fame.