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Donald James Anderson (June 9th, 1929 - May 1st, 2015), began hustling when he was 15 years old in the bowling alley where he worked from 1944 to 1946. At the age of 17, Anderson became a Cincinnati-area legend after challenging Rudolph "New York Fats" Wonderone (who later adopted "Minnesota Fats" as his alias after Jackie Gleason's character in The Hustler) at pocket billiards. Anderson beat Wonderone in six straight games. He and two friends from Cincinnati, Joey Spaeth and Eugene "Clem" Metz, traveled around the United States running a pool hustle that involved an elaborate charade of pretending to be unskilled country boys and then winning games for money. The three gained a reputation and were often referred to as, "those kids from Cincinnati." This ultimately led to Anderson's adopting his moniker as "The Cincinnati Kid".

After years of hustling, Anderson solidified his reputation by winning the first-ever World Bank-Pool Tournament (March 1973).