Wacko
February, 1988
When she was seven years old, she shot pool on I've Got a Secret. At 13, she was the Women's U. S. Open Pocket Billiards champion--the youngest national champ in American sports history. She challenged, and smoked, the legendary Willie Mosconi. Since then, Brooklyn's Jean Balukas, 28, has won nine more U. S. Open titles, five Women's Professional Billiard Association titles and, in her spare time, has taken on the best male players in the world. "There were a lot of bad attitudes from the m...
