Dick Lane is a professional pocket billiards (pool) player from Dallas, Texas.
[1] In 1977, he reached the finals of the BCA U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship but lost to Tom Jennings despite leading 196–42 and being only four balls away from the championship.
[2] Lane was the subject of an extensive profile Texas Monthly, which nicknamed him "the Shootist" and described him as Texas's greatest pool players, a two-time Southwest Player of the Year who has won many tournaments and has a run of 324 consecutive balls in straight pool and 9 straight racks in nine ball.
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