A Woman to Know: Gloria Walker

For $150 a night, Gloria Walker will destroy a man's ego. — The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1989

(Photo via Jack Gills for the Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Gloria Walker had a gift. For several years in the 1970s and 1980s, she ruled as America's women's billiards champion. She aced national competitions against both women and men, and most legendarily, she vanq…