Wade Crane

Wade Arlyn Crane, nicknamed Boom-Boom for the cannonball sound of his powerful break, lived from February 20, 1944, to December 26, 2010, and was an American professional pool player who also played under the alias Billy Johnson. A former nine-ball champion, he was a dominant player in the mid-1980s and was voted by his peers to have the best nine-ball break in history at the time. He grew up in Robbinsville, North Carolina, the youngest of four children raised by his grandmother after his father died in a car accident, and took a job at twelve in a five-table pool room called Cooper's, where he taught himself the game. He was no relation to Irving Crane.