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bradl

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The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« on: January 14, 2014, 05:00:52 PM »

Apologies if there has been a couple hundred threads on this before (no doubt there have been).

What match throughout the history of the PBA, or in your life, have you seen that ranks as the best match you've seen on the PBA? I'll start, and throw in some clips as well.

I have a few in mind, from both recent and classic times:

Barnes v. Kulick.
Weber v. Fagan.
Jurek v. Fagan.
Learn Jr. v. Couch.
Anthony v. Roth.

All of those are great, and great in their own right.. But personally, I consider the best PBA match ever to be..

Mike Aulby v. David Ozio, 1993 Wichita Open.

Entire Telecast

Final Match

This one also shows a Mr. Kirk von Krueger in the finals as well, but also shows the great prim/proper colour commentary by Schenkel, as well as Burton's play-by-play. I'd call them the best commentating pair modern sport has ever seen. I honestly would.

Anyway, what is the best match you've seen, and why? If available, post clips as well.

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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2014, 12:27:22 AM »
Here are some of my favorites:

Bob Learn vs Johnny Petraglia in Erie.  That was the day that Bob averaged around 280 over the entire stepladder final.

Norm Duke vs Robert Smith at the US Open.  One of the few times we saw Maximum Bob ever go straight but outbowled Duke on Duke's line.

Robert Smith vs WRWJ.  Those were always fun matches, and who could forget when Maximum Bob shattered the glass when making the 3-6-10 spare.

Michael Haugen Jr. vs Pete Weber.  Can't do much better than a 289-279 and Weber declared that Haugen's first title would not be against him.

Michael Haugen Jr. vs Chris Barnes at the US Open.  It was an epic meltdown by Barnes that allowed Haugen to come back in the last 4-5 frames after Barnes led by almost 60.

Mike Fagan vs Pete Weber at the US Open.  Great bowling by both, and of course the "Who do you think you are?  I am" eruption.

John Mazza vs WRWJ in Reno.  Mazza and WRWJ were in a strikefest during that championship match until WRWJ missed at the end.  Title went to Mazza that day.  It was also fun to see Mazza throwing out to 2-3 with the early reactive balls at the time.

Amleto Monacelli vs Bill O'Neill.  This was a horrible scoring match with Amleto only bowling in the low 140's.  But to see him compete with that arm injury really earned more of my respect.  He's no doubt one of the best international bowlers ever in the PBA.  He showed no quit that day.  O'Neill was great with his sportsmanship as well.
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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2014, 09:44:28 PM »
1986 St. Louis Open - Duke vs. Weber.

Weber in his home house, Duke being Duke.  Epic.

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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2014, 11:14:48 PM »
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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2014, 11:21:19 PM »
1958/9: Billy Golembiewski beating Ray Bluth, 300 - 299, on Bowling for Dollars (I think that was the show's name)

Sometime in the 1980s: Mark Baker beat Dave Ferraro 279 - 278.

Johnny Petraglia's 300 with the Green Quantum.

Don Johnson's 299 in the TOC when he wound up laying on the floor - one of the most dramatic moments on bowling TV.
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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #20 on: March 03, 2014, 08:24:00 PM »
McCordic/Webb 1987 Greater LA Open (McCordic's 300).  It had been 14 years since Stefanich's 300 and even though the match was over in the 8th frame (Webb put up a solid 249) the atmosphere was crazy.  One of Bo and Chris' best broadcasting jobs.

I wish I could find a video of the '93 US Open where Ballard was playing a fallback with an Ultimate Weapon.  Resin had officially taken over and DB is playing this wonderful fallback from 25 to 18 and just annihilating the pins.

Speaking of which, not the "best" PBA match, but the most obvious example of "hey, something different is going on here".

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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #21 on: March 03, 2014, 08:47:34 PM »
Wayne Webb vs. Pete McCordic. McCordic shot 300 to Webb's 250 something, what was memorable was McCordic shaking like a leaf after the first eight strikes. I thought the poor guy was going to faint on national television!

The sweat dripping down his nose
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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #22 on: March 04, 2014, 11:57:10 AM »
Wayne Webb vs. Pete McCordic. McCordic shot 300 to Webb's 250 something, what was memorable was McCordic shaking like a leaf after the first eight strikes. I thought the poor guy was going to faint on national television!

The sweat dripping down his nose

I was like 13 or 14 when I saw this on ABC, I think. I had stop bowling youth to focus on other sports. I was nervous even though we saw this show a week after it aired lol. I was living overseas.....
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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2014, 07:28:59 PM »
Ballard vs. Weber when Ballard threw the gutterball ... then showed up next week and did a Rolaids commercial based around that shot. I was a fan for life.

Jeff Carter beating PDW in the plastic ball tournament.

Probably the most surreal one was the last telecast Dale Traber made, all the wailing going on on the forums because he was a big guy, and then the way it finished -- wasn't that Mike Mineman's title?

Those might not be the "best," but they're some of the most memorable.

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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2014, 09:01:30 PM »

Probably the most surreal one was the last telecast Dale Traber made, all the wailing going on on the forums because he was a big guy, and then the way it finished -- wasn't that Mike Mineman's title?


Yes it was.  That was the drop it on the gutter show.  I loved that show.  Mineman's first shot on TV pocket 7-10, throws at the 10 pin 15mph and almost makes it with the pin laying right in front of the 7.

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Re: The Best PBA Match You have ever seen is...
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2014, 10:42:00 PM »
Wayne Webb vs. Pete McCordic. McCordic shot 300 to Webb's 250 something, what was memorable was McCordic shaking like a leaf after the first eight strikes. I thought the poor guy was going to faint on national television!

The sweat dripping down his nose

I was like 13 or 14 when I saw this on ABC, I think. I had stop bowling youth to focus on other sports. I was nervous even though we saw this show a week after it aired lol. I was living overseas.....

I really didn't think he was going to be able to finish the match. I was a porter at our local center, and the whole place stopped bowling and everyone was standing at the bar watching.