A life-long pool player, Gottier’s played professionally and picked the name of his pool room as homage to Ralph Greenleaf, a 20 time World Pocket Billiards Champion from the 1930s. Gottier said ...

Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, 13-time world’s “pocket billiard” (pool) champion : his 14th championship, after three years of retirement ; by beating nervous onetime champion (1934 ...

MONMOUTH — First there was Ralph Greenleaf, who not only dominated ... Sage said he grew to know a lot of Greenleaf’s story, a player who was to pool in the 1920s what Babe Ruth was to ...