How many pockets does the modern pocket billiards table have?
Pool (cue sports) of pocket billiards as the sport gained in popularity, and so outside the cue sports industry, which has long favored the more formal term "pocket billiards", the common name for the sport has remained "pool". The "OxfordDictionaries.com" definition no longer even provides the obsolete meaning found in the print edition, and refers only to the typical game "using two sets [each] of seven coloured and numbered balls ... with one black ball and a white cue ball" on a table with pockets. Pool is played on a six pocket table. Modern pool tables generally range in size from by ,
Baseball pocket billiards Baseball pocket billiards Baseball pocket billiards or baseball pool (sometimes, in context, referred to simply as baseball) is a pocket billiards (pool) game suitable for multiple players that borrows phraseology and even some aspects of form from the game of baseball. For instance, although baseball pool is played on a standard pool table, the 9 ball is known as the "pitcher", the table's where balls are racked is known as "home plate", and each team or player is afforded "nine innings" to score as many "runs" as possible. Baseball pocket billiards has been in existence since at least 1912, when