Editing Straight pool (section)

==In popular culture==
Straight pool has been featured in popular culture, most notably in the 1959 novel ''[[The Hustler (novel)|The Hustler]]'' and its [[The Hustler|1961 film adaptation]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Rossen |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Rossen |date=1972 |title=Three Screenplays: All the Kings Men, The Hustler, and Lilith |location=New York |publisher=[[Anchor Doubleday]] |lccn=70-175418}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Review: ''Hustler, The'' |work=Preview.ReelViews.net |access-date=January 7, 2020 |url= http://preview.reelviews.net/movies/h/hustler.html |archive-date=December 5, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201205203635/https://preview.reelviews.net/movies/h/hustler.html |url-status=live}}</ref> It also provides the setting and background for [[John O'Hara]]'s monologue short story "Straight Pool".<ref>{{cite book |first=John |last=O'Hara |author-link=John O'Hara |contribution=Straight Pool |editor1-first=James |editor1-last=Moffett |editor2-first=Kenneth |editor2-last=McElheny |title=Points of View: An Anthology of Stories |edition=Revised |location=New York |publisher=[[New American Library|Mentor]] |date=1995 |pages=32–35}}</ref>

Straight pool, in common with other pool games, has been associated with [[hustling]].<ref name="Fels" /> ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' produced an episode titled "[[A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1959)|A Game of Pool]]"<!--1959 is the series beginning date, not episode date.--> in 1961, and [[A Game of Pool (The Twilight Zone, 1985)|remade it in 1989]]<!--1985 is the new series beginning date, not episode date.-->, with a straight-pool player being revived from the afterlife to compete in one last match.<ref>{{cite book |last=DeVoe |first=Bill |date=2008 |title=Trivia from The Twilight Zone |location=Albany, Georgia, US |publisher=Bear Manor Media |isbn=978-1-59393-136-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Grams |first=Martin |date=2008 |title=The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic |location=Churchville, Maryland |publisher=OTR Publishing |isbn=978-0-9703310-9-0}}</ref>

In episode 17 of the seventh season of ''[[Seinfeld]]'', "The Doll", [[Cosmo Kramer]], [[Frank Costanza]], and Bob Cobb (aka "The Maestro") play straight pool for several hours in Frank's way-too-small pool room. Frank originally suggests he and Kramer play eight ball, but Kramer overrides the suggestion, requesting straight pool.