The Very Best of Cups and Balls

1979
Written by Frank Garcia
Work of Various
125 pages (Paperback), published by Selfpublished
Illustrated with drawings by Richard Kaufman
Language: English
34 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Frank Garcia Introduction
6
Lou Lancaster Introduction
7
Father Cyprian Performer Second to None
8
Jerry Solomon "The Oldest Deception"
9
Amazing James Randi Introduction
12
Frank Garcia Acknowledgement
14
Frank Garcia The Oldest Deception comments
 		15
Frank Garcia The Frank Garcia Million Dollar Cups and Balls Routine
  • First Phase of Frank Garcia's Routine
  • Variation on the "Oldest Deception"
  • Phase #2
  • Phase #3
  • Phase #4
  • Phase #5
  • Phase #6
  • Phase #7
Variations 17
Frank Garcia The "Garcia" Master Vanish Moves false transfer for small ball
 		24
Frank Garcia The "Scoop" or "Lift Up" Move showing cup empty despite ball
 		34
Theo "Okito" Bamberg The "Galloping Post" Move
35
Charlie Miller Miller's Drop Through Move
51
Horace Goldin "Click" Move ball vanishes between to cups that are banged together
 		61
Old Pop Kreiger Shower of Balls
65
Paul Gertner The Cups and Balls with Steel Ball Bearings
81
The Finger Palm with steel ball
 		82
Paul Gertner Secret Loading of a Ball Underneath a Cup with steel ball
 		82
Paul Gertner The False Load steel ball apparently placed under cup
 		84
Sam Leo Horowitz S. Leo Horowitz's Cup & Ball Routine
91
Horace Goldin The Horace Golding Baffling Cup gaffed cup to vanish a ball under it
 		103
Frank Garcia Further Ideas and Reflections
103
Frank Garcia Passing a Wand Through 3 Nested Cups
105
Sam Leo Horowitz Coin Through Cup
106
Cup Through Cup
109
Herb Morrissey Fako Move sequence for showing cups empty
 		111
Frank Garcia, Max Malini Magical Odd Facts About the Cups and Balls, Ideas and Further "Reflections" about Malini's Cups and Balls
 		114
Francis Carlyle "Proposition" Bet exploiting optical illusion of cup design
 		115
Francis Carlyle Francis Carlyle's Patter Introduction to Cups and Balls
116
To Show that a Cup is Deeper Inside than Out
117
Frank Garcia Additional Sequence
117
John Northern Hilliard Some Great Quotes
119
John Northern Hilliard Some Great Quotes by the Late John Northern Hilliard who wrote "Greater Magic"
119
Frank Garcia Epilogue
121
Frank Garcia Secret Recipe for Better Magic
123
Data entered by Denis Behr, July 2010.