2. Mark Twain’s Pool Cue is on Display
Housed in a stately Greek Revival townhouse, The Players occupies four floors, plus the Grill pub space on the lower level, where members often gather for refreshments, food and conversation. One notable feature inside the Grill is its pool table where Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) frequently played with other members of the club.
Twain’s pool cue is displayed over his portrait, which sits above the fireplace. It accompanies the golf club of actor Jack Lemmon, as well as other pool cues belonging to actor Frank Morgan (best remembered as the Wizard of Oz), newspaper columnist Franklin Pierce Adams and actor Roland Winters. In addition, the Card Room on the second level holds a poker table, which was also reportedly used by Twain.