The family is keeping several of his pool cues and tables, but no longer has room for all of them. Proceeds from the Balabushka cue and pool table being sold will go to the individual descendants ...

In addition to the pool room, there will be a shop where players can buy equipment — even the legendary Balabushka pool cue, made famous by Paul Newman in the movie “The Color of Money.” ...

He was called “The Maestro” and his baton was his hand-crafted Balabushka pool cue — called the “Stadivarius of cues,” a collector’s item because only 1,000 or so were made.

PHILADELPHIA -- When illness forced billiards great Willie Mosconi into a nursing home toward the end of his life, his equipment sponsor donated a pool table to the Cherry Hill, N.J., facility.