Editing Eight-ball (section)

==History==
The game of eight-ball arose around 1900 in the United States as a development of [[pyramid pool]], which allows any eight of the fifteen object balls to be pocketed to win. The game arose from two changes made, namely that the 8 ball must be pocketed last to win, and that each player may pocket only half of the other object balls. By 1925, the game was popular enough for the [[Brunswick Corporation|Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company]] to introduce purpose-made ball sets with seven {{cuegloss|red ball|red}}, seven {{cuegloss|yellow ball|yellow}}, one {{cuegloss|black ball}}, and the cue ball, which allowed spectators to more easily see which suit each ball belonged to. (Such colors became standard in the later [[Eight-ball pool (British variation)|British-originating variant]].) The rules, as officially codified in the [[Billiard Congress of America]]'s rule book, were periodically revised in the years following.<ref name="Shamos 1999">{{Shamos 1999}}</ref>{{rp|24, 89–90}}<ref name="Jewett 2002">{{cite journal |last=Jewett |first=Bob |date=February 2002 |title=8-Ball Rules: The Many Different Versions of One of Today's Most Common Games |journal=Billiards Digest |pages=22–23}}</ref><ref name="Hickock 2001">{{Cite web |last=Hickok |first=Ralph |date=2001 |url= http://www.hickoksports.com/history/billiard.shtml |title=Sports History: Pocket Billiards |access-date=December 13, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061205013523/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/billiard.shtml |archive-date=December 5, 2006}}</ref><ref name="BCA 2005">{{Cite web |last=Shamos |first=Mike |date=2001 |orig-date=1995 |title=A Brief History of the Noble Game of Billiards |url=http://www.bca-pool.com/aboutus/history/start.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127151057/http://www.bca-pool.com/aboutus/history/start.shtml |archive-date=January 27, 2007 |work=BCA-Pool.com |publisher=Billiard Congress America}}</ref>