I've seen 2 different LOGO's representing "FABALL". One of them is what I've seen researching about a particular Hammer bowling ball. That logo has dots crossed like a cross with fab. I have a hammer manufactured in St. Louis that has been closed for many of years. It has a Cap R with fab in it. Can anyone explain the difference.
From my shaky memory, Faball decided to get into the reactive ball market and on at least one of their reactive balls that I bought, it had a capital R on it to mean Reactive. I don't remember the year and I no longer own that ball to check the s/n or model.
This would have been around 1995. Fab was late getting into the reactive resin world because they thought that the technology was a fad and wasn't going to last. If I remember right, the people who developed reactive resin either worked for or presented the idea to Fab, who turned it down. They then took it to Nu-Line, which brought us the XCalibur. Ebonite quickly bought into it and brought us the Turbo/X. Brunswick also did, and brought us the Rhino Pro. I can't remember if the Red or Yellow Sun Storms were reactive or urethane (never threw Storm, and never will).
The only ones that lost out on it was Fab; they went Purple Hammer (1993) and Burgundy Hammer (1994) at that time, then finally got into it with the Hammer/R, or Reactive Hammer. by then, they started their downhill slide as they couldn't compete with resin, let alone Columbia's Ceramicore, which was also starting to take off, with the Aftershock.
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