Mike Lebrón

Miguel Benjamin Lebrón-Laboy, known as Mike Lebrón and nicknamed Spanish Mike, was born on March 31, 1934, and is a Puerto Rican professional pool player who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He won the thirteenth U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship in 1988 against Nick Varner at the age of 54, making him the oldest player to have won that title and the only Puerto Rican born professional pool player to win a major title. In 1991 he won the International Challenge of Champions by defeating Buddy Hall in the final, taking 50,000 dollars, the largest first prize in a pool tournament at the time. He was inducted into the Yabucoa Sports Hall of Fame in his hometown of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, in 2006, and he is a member of the International Pool Tour.