BOOKS & HISTORY
Books & Historical Materials
Classic court-shuffleboard books, manuals, booklets, and annual article collections preserved as downloadable historical resources.
Historical context matters
These publications reflect the rules, terminology, organizations, equipment, strategy, and contact information of their own time. They are presented as historical sources and should not automatically be treated as current rules or current contact information.
Classic books and manuals
How to Play Shuffleboard
An illustrated classic guide to court shuffleboard, published by the St. Petersburg Times, with extensive diagrams covering shots, tactics, and game situations.
How to Win at Shuffleboard
A concise illustrated guide intended to help players progress from beginner toward competent play, with strategy presented for quick reference.
Let’s All Play Shuffleboard
A classic instructional book promoting shuffleboard for fun, health, exercise, and enjoyment, with practical guidance on playing the game.
Modular Shuffleboard
A comprehensive instructional work presenting a modular learning system, game-plan strategies, percentage play, discipline, and broader tactical ideas. The complete book is provided in two parts to keep each download more manageable.
Play Shuffleboard and Stay Young
An instructional booklet created to encourage shufflers to learn, play, and enjoy the game, originally distributed by the author without charge to shufflers.
Shuffleboard 101
A concise historical court-shuffleboard booklet preserved as an instructional reference.
Shuffleboard: Technique – Theory – Strategy
A historical instructional work organized around shuffleboard technique, theory, and strategy.
Shuffleboard: Those Capricious Discs (also “Shuffleboard 101 for Dummies”)
A book of shuffleboard strategy and technique covering equipment, game formats, shooting, special shots, guarding, combinations, strategy, drifty courts, and practice. This book has also been circulated with a faux cover under the title "Shuffleboard 101 for Dummies".
Bob Zaletel resources
Keep on Shufflin’
An instructional book focused on play on the fast Western court, with practical strategy and shot-making material.
Mind Over Matter
A shuffleboard book devoted to the mental and emotional side of the game, including self-evaluation, confidence, consistency, and competitive mindset.
Shuffleboard’s Blueprint for Success
A step-by-step approach to growing the game, with organizational planning material such as league coordination, park listings, rosters, sign-up sheets, and related program tools.
Lary Faris annual article collections
Improve Your Shuffleboard – Series 9100 (1991)
A year-long collection of 52 Shuffleboard Coach articles from 1991, covering strategy, shot selection, practice, court conditions, tournament play, and player experiences.
Improve Your Shuffleboard – Series 9300 (1993)
A year-long collection of 52 Shuffleboard Coach articles from 1993, covering strategy, shot selection, practice, court conditions, tournament play, and player experiences.
Shuffleboard Coach – 1994 (52 Articles)
A year-long collection of 52 Shuffleboard Coach articles from 1994, covering strategy, shot selection, practice, court conditions, tournament play, and player experiences.
Shuffleboard Coach – 1995 (52 Articles)
A year-long collection of 52 Shuffleboard Coach articles from 1995, covering strategy, shot selection, practice, court conditions, tournament play, and player experiences.
Shuffleboard Coach – 1996 (52 Articles)
A year-long collection of 52 Shuffleboard Coach articles from 1996, covering strategy, shot selection, practice, court conditions, tournament play, and player experiences.
Shuffleboard Coach – 1997 (52 Articles)
A year-long collection of 52 Shuffleboard Coach articles from 1997, covering strategy, shot selection, practice, court conditions, tournament play, and player experiences.
Recovered Shuffleboard Coach Articles – 1998-2003 (24 Articles)
A 53-page historical collection of 24 recovered Lary Faris Shuffleboard Coach articles from 1998-2003, assembled from preserved newspaper clippings and transcriptions. The archive identifies two known source-text gaps and does not claim a complete column run.
Lary Faris Newspaper Article Directory
A date-ordered directory of 91 Lary Faris court-shuffleboard newspaper article titles. Open the original newspaper archive through 75 clickable links. 16 additional titles are known and included but currently don't have newspaper links.