OK, OK,OK, I want to apologize for the way my post came across. It was not intended to offend anybody. I learned that I should never post anything after a bad night at work. Again I apologize for the way my post came across.
 I do want to thank several Bowlers for educating me without belittling me.... Neumann Knight,Jauggernaut,CRASH7189, and JustRico, I learned something from these Bowlers and especially liked the history lesson. Thanks for setting me straight.
Now about me. I am totally new to this sight and have just started getting back into bowling within the last year...thanks to my daughter wanting to bowl in a youth league. I served in the Navy after high school(1989), stationed aboard the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)until 1993....hence hawk8993. I live in what used to be the "Furniture Capital of the World"...High Point, N.C., I know about jobs moving over seas, just do not agree with the reasoning behind it.

I personally do not care what you bowl with as long as you show lane courtesy
 and have fun doing it. I can only speak for myself but, if my favorite bowling ball manufacturer moved any where outside the U.S.A. I'd put a big eye bolt in my bowling balls and sell them as boat anchors and find another ball company....but thats just me.

Again I did not mean to open any "old wounds" or offend anybody that bowls with the big B

hawk8993
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We let them have MANY pairs of shoes, so why can''t we have lots of BALLS.