The Mystery of the Missing Ball

At a sale in Pomona last year, I was fascinated by this box of billiard balls.  I liked the colorful yet weathered look of the balls and thought it was a fun image.  Upon closer examination, I noticed one of the most famous balls is missing! And so I had to look up the story of the missing ball and the answer appears below:

The idiomatic English phrase “behind the eight ball” is used to indicate that someone or some group is in a bad situation, or a challenging circumstance that is not easy to resolve. Mar 27 2019

---