But if you got your hands on some of the earliest plastic billiard balls, that was a chance you took. Billiards photo by Leo Hidalgo (CC BY 2.0).

There was a time when taking a perfect shot in a game of billiards could cause the ball to explode. That’s because the balls were made of celluloid, an early plastic that was, unfortunately ...

The Albany Billiard Ball Co. was an industry leader for more than a century and kept innovating with synthetic materials and plastic compounds to continue to improve the product and eventually ...

Prior to the invention of plastic, billiard balls were made from wild elephant tusks. Because of the sport’s growing popularity, a New York firm offered $10,000 for anyone who could find a ...

“It’s a beautiful plastic, and it has a wonderful range of uses. But. Billiard balls is not one of them.” Balls made with celluloid just don’t bounce right.

I have a set of billiard balls sitting on my desk in a box with a partially torn label on which the words “Hyatt” and “Billiard Ball Company” are clearly visible. That makes these balls ...

I have a set of billiard balls sitting on my desk in a box with a partially torn label on which the words “Hyatt” and “Billiard Ball Company” are clearly visible. That makes these balls ...