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Title: What was your first ball?
Post by: star wars geek on August 19, 2003, 01:53:00 AM
Mine was an old black and red swirl Brunswick that my grandfather left to me.  I don't know the name, but it will always be with me for nostalgic purposes.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: DON DRAPER on August 19, 2003, 05:09:31 PM
my first ball was a brunswick triple crown plastic ball---bought and drilled at jc penney.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: TravisG on August 19, 2003, 05:46:27 PM
My first ball was an Ebonite Gyro. This was a few years back I made my mom buy it for me at a garage sale. I bowled with it a few times and threw it in the closet. Not until last year when my friends asked me to be on a bowling team with them did I dig it out. Ever since then I have been addicted to bowling.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Rantings on August 19, 2003, 05:47:48 PM
A gold swirl Galaxy 300 bought at K-Mart.

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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: michelle on August 19, 2003, 05:50:22 PM

First one I can remember taking into a center was an old Ebonite Tornado that was in the attic of the house my parents bought in 1970 and that rubbed my thumb waaaaay raw after a dozen or so games.  Upgraded from that to a Galaxie300 from KMart complete with the three holes drilled somewhere in the ball.  First "real" ball was a Faball Blue Nail that someone was going to drill out for trot line weighting in a lake.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: TyLytle on August 19, 2003, 06:21:45 PM
Ebonite Red and Silver Tornando.

Ty
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: mumzie on August 19, 2003, 07:02:53 PM
My first ball was a Brunswick Bantam. It was either an 8 or 9 pounder - black rubber with red and blue triangles...
Was I cool strutting into the bowling alley with my own ball and bag at the ripe old age of 5 or 6??? Oh, yeah...

FYI - Galaxie 300 were seconds/thirds made by Columbia. Firsts had columbia's name on them, seconds were bonanzas. I believe thirds were sold as Galaxie 300s by KMart. I think they were off pretty much only in color.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: livespive on August 19, 2003, 07:06:35 PM
Galaxie 300
My aunt gave it to me.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: laner7pin on August 19, 2003, 07:08:02 PM
First ball ever was a burgandy swirled 8lb ball called a "Lucky Strike". Got it for my b-day 16 years ago. Still in my closet, saving it for my kid (hopefully he/she is a lefty). First "real" ball was a 13lb Blue Hammer which I got in '97 when I started to bowl in juniors. Sold it about a year later, then got a 14lb Blue last year for a spare/desert ball. Gets a lot of use, especially this summer when the lanes dont get oiled regularly and everything else hooks at the arrows then skids the last 30 feet due to extreme carrydown. Fun when trying to leave a "Lily".
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: cooksey on August 19, 2003, 07:23:38 PM
First ball I bought was a ebonite blue nitro. One of the best urethane balls ever made imo. Should have kept that ball.

Thanks, cooksey
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: 12 Steps on August 19, 2003, 07:25:53 PM
Mine was a 12lb Brunswick Black Diamond that my Mom bought for me at a Blue Chip Stamp store. I had it drilled by a man named Dick Braasch in 1966. He is still, very much alive today, and drilling bowling balls. Oh the memories.......

P.S. Mumzie, we use to take the Brunswick Bantam balls and use to take our thumbs out of the ball and throw them. We use to call it, "Wiper snapping the ball" before Palming the ball became the craze.......Ah the memories.......
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: joegunn on August 19, 2003, 08:38:43 PM
I had an Ebonite Don Carter model...mid 1970's...bought and drilled at Two Guys, which was an East Coast department store.  One of the uglier balls ever made...it was pumpkin orange and I think it was polyester.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: striker200 on August 19, 2003, 10:48:09 PM
My first ball was a scout/r from columbia 300. (Still using it now, hits like a truck)
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Amigo2 on August 20, 2003, 12:55:15 AM
Manhattan Rubber & most likely still rolling somewhere.

Amigo
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: lane1lefty on August 20, 2003, 01:00:29 AM
Blue Hammer, best ball of it's generation.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Urethane Game on August 20, 2003, 01:53:27 AM
10lb. Orange Lucky Strike.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Brickguy221 on August 20, 2003, 02:11:57 AM
Manhattan Rubber.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Cheez Wiz on August 20, 2003, 02:37:20 AM
Brunswick Sea Strike.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: kev3inp on August 20, 2003, 04:25:34 AM
Black Beauty
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Lefty210 on August 20, 2003, 07:31:56 AM
My first "real" ball was a brunswick axis bought at K-mart.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: CRutkowski on August 20, 2003, 08:47:53 AM
A Brunswick Mark Roth Urethane ball that I bought back in 1991.  I still use it too.  For my game, this is the best ball.  I just got it repaired, had some cracking near the finger holes.  I plan on using this ball until it cracks in half.  LOL.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: bygnel on August 20, 2003, 05:21:30 PM
AMF Whip
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Ebowla on August 20, 2003, 05:25:50 PM
Red/Black Brunswick Wild Fire
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: JMAN 67 on August 20, 2003, 05:29:54 PM
Grey Ebonite Gold Dot hand me down from my Dad. Still sits in my wife's garden!!

JMAN
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Bjaardker on August 20, 2003, 05:32:17 PM
quote:
ebonite grey maxim shot my first 200 with it (243) straight ball when i was 10...


Cool! My first ball & first 200 was with a grey ebonite maxim too. I was about 10 at the time as well.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: DrillLord on August 20, 2003, 05:34:18 PM
My first ball was a Columbia Cuda 2000.  I hated this ball, but I still keep it around with a ton of polish on it for toasted conditions.

Jason
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Jeffrevs on August 20, 2003, 08:21:24 PM
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Gravy on August 20, 2003, 08:35:06 PM
AMF Strikeline drilled by Robbie Robertson The inventer of the Robbies wrist support. Can still smell the burning rubber. The year 1969.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: LuvThatWhiteDot on August 20, 2003, 08:46:21 PM
My first ball was a 10 lb. peach White Dot (there's a shocker)

I rolled my first 200 game with it.  200 on the nose.  Ahhh, the memories...
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White Dot
Not another 10 pin!
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: 9orbetter on August 20, 2003, 09:00:41 PM
Columbia Black Knight
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: da Shiv on August 20, 2003, 09:10:53 PM
Brunswick Black Beauty--inherited.  First ball I bought for myself was the original LT-48.

Shiv
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: L o G on August 20, 2003, 09:26:17 PM
Brunswick Red Rhino plastic
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: RandyO on August 20, 2003, 09:44:47 PM
First ball specifically drilled for me was a 14# Sears & Roebuck 3-piece rubber. I was 14 at the time (1968). Had it drilled by the hack at the Sears store. I don’t think he even knew or cared about pitches, and it was drilled backwards. He drilled the ring finger about 3/8 shorter than the middle finger, and I’m right-handed. That ball used to chew my thumb and finger up, but I did shoot a 279 & a couple of 700’s with it. I finally found a decent 15# 3-dot that fit better on the rack, and used the Sears ball for ‘sidewalk-bowling’.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: arakasi on August 21, 2003, 12:09:17 AM
AMF Strikeline. I brought it of a guy at work for $20.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: seadrive on August 21, 2003, 08:43:29 AM
Wow, I thought I was gonna be the only one who had a Strikeline, now there are three of us.

Mine was 10#, black and blue mottling, I don't think you could elevate it to the status of a swirl.  The year was probably '63 or '64.
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Cogito ergo bowl
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Curly on August 21, 2003, 08:54:39 AM
Wow, as hard as I try to remember, I get nothing. I do know that my first real ball was the black hammer.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Ishmael on August 21, 2003, 09:02:39 AM
Rhino Pro T2

It's still sitting down in the basement.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Doggie the Dog on August 22, 2003, 12:19:09 AM
Brunswick Bantam 8- the same ball that Mumzie described.  My dad got it for me from a bowling alley that closed in the 60s.

Star Wars Geek- that ball probably is a Brunswick Fireball- it was made in the 50s-early 60s. My grandpa had one. Cool ball in its time.

Another unusual ball Big B made at the time was the Pro-Model- a white ball with black swirls.

For the one who described the "Ace of Spades" ball, it was made by a company called ACE about the same era. Company went out of business in the late 60s-early 70s.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: jensm on August 22, 2003, 01:40:49 AM
14 lbs Spin Master.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: HamPster on August 22, 2003, 03:01:19 AM
Original Purple Monster.  Yeah, been in the game waaaay too long . . .
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Monster Bruiser on August 28, 2003, 12:44:32 PM
I've got a Brunswick Rhino Pro. it was good stuff.

now's a classic ball already!

Kudos!
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: morpheus on August 28, 2003, 01:05:52 PM
My dad bought me a 6 pound Black Beauty when I was 5 yrs old back in 1970.  Wish he would have bought me a set of golf clubs instead...
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Overhand on July 07, 2004, 11:34:05 AM

K-Mart blue Galaxie 300...$25.95 drilled.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Ragnar on July 07, 2004, 11:44:56 AM
My first one was some old Black/green swirl rubber ball, probably a Brunswick, that I got for Christmas in 1961.  It just may still be on the racks at the Bowlaway in Walla Walla.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: kendog on July 07, 2004, 11:46:19 AM
used black hammer.
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avoids spare shooting at all costs
just throw strikes
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: TheBowlingKid25 on July 07, 2004, 12:17:06 PM
I had a 14# Columbia Scout, the urethane one. Drilled conventional, then plugged and redrilled fingertip. (this was only a year and a half ago) I still have it up in the attic. I plan on keeping it to.
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: agroves on July 07, 2004, 12:32:18 PM
Original Ebonite gyro

andrew
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Walking E on July 07, 2004, 12:44:00 PM
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my first ball was a brunswick triple crown plastic ball---bought and drilled at jc penney.


That makes two of us!
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: janderson on July 07, 2004, 01:03:38 PM
As with anyone who grew up bowling in the early 1970's, a Brunswick Black Beauty.
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Kill the back row (or maybe this should read "make your spares, dummy")
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: drillbit on July 07, 2004, 04:03:24 PM
A 13lb. Brunswick Black Diamond, drilled conventional. Still around the house somewhere.

drillbit
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: T Brockette on July 07, 2004, 04:11:16 PM
First ball I remember using: Black Diamond
First ball I actually bought: Yellow dot bleeder

Whew, had to think too hard and too far back for this,
brain will now go into shutdown mode.
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If you want to play, train your body.
If you want to win, train your heart.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Hammer3003 on July 07, 2004, 04:13:54 PM
First ball was a 8lb purple swirled columbia white dot. First urethane ball was a 14lb turbo C Pearl (Blue). First reactive was an 15lb Ebonite Jaguar (with the old ebonite logo).
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: CoachJim on July 07, 2004, 04:22:23 PM
The first ball I got when I was 13 in 78 was a Black Beauty, my first fingertip ball was a blue white dot, first urethane ball was the origonal black Angle, I quit bowling in 86, and tossed over 25 balls. I got back into bowling in 94 and bought a forest green Quantum, and have bought over 50 balls since.
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: rollingthunder on July 07, 2004, 04:32:30 PM
16lb Brunswick Black Diamond
Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: BowlingDude300 on July 07, 2004, 06:48:11 PM
16# Optyx Spider

I remember the day I got it. It smelled like tootsie rolls. LOL.


Kyle
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Title: Re: What was your first ball?
Post by: Maelstrom on July 07, 2004, 06:53:47 PM
It was a blue and green target zone. I still have it too!
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