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Title: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: bamaster on December 22, 2005, 01:58:57 AM: I do. It was a plastic ball Brunswick. It was red swirly. Conventional grip. No inserts of any kind.

I was 12 or 13, I forget. But I do remember putting a pillow at the end of the hallway and making my own "lane" so that I could practice. The ball put little burn spots on the carpet, hehe.

Man, I remember how much I loved that ball. I'd clean it when it was already clean. The good ol' days!

Do you remember your first ball?
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Brickguy221 on December 22, 2005, 10:03:24 AM: My first ball was a Manhattan Rubber ball.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: lil League Coach on December 22, 2005, 10:04:53 AM: yes it was a 10lb Denver Bronco ball (bright orange) i have no idea who even made these balls but it was in the late 80s.

Also the ball had no holes becuz i was 7 an i threw it 2 handed

Edited on 12/22/2005 10:54 AM
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: legend4life95 on December 22, 2005, 10:06:30 AM: My first ball was a 16lb. Ebonite Omega about 10-12 years ago.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Pinbuster on December 22, 2005, 10:07:30 AM: My first ball I believe was a rubber Brunswick Firestorm.

My first new ball was an AMF 3-dot classic
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: KDawg77 on December 22, 2005, 10:09:12 AM: 8 lb. High Skor 300 bought at K-Mart
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: sportbowler on December 22, 2005, 10:10:47 AM: 10lb used Ebonite Mirage from Sports Authority.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: MegaMav on December 22, 2005, 10:14:00 AM: 1987, i was 7, rubber columbia300 cork center, i can still feel the inside of the finger holes.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Redline on December 22, 2005, 10:14:55 AM: Yah...was an Ebonite Maxim Blue spare ball.

A bunch of buddies started going weekly, so we all
decided to get some equipment.

First actual "hook" ball was an Ebonite Tornado. Got my
first 200+ game on it.

*sigh* memories. I still have both sitting in my closet.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: TTforshort on December 22, 2005, 10:16:38 AM: 16# Ebonite, Gold Dot bought at a yard sale for $1.00. In the garage somewhere.

I used it about 6 months and bought a new Red Hammer, the first ball I had drilled finger tip with inserts. This was about 1989.

The Hammer was sitting in the proshop, I gave it to a teammate last year.

TT
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: icetink on December 22, 2005, 10:17:03 AM: 10lb plastic Rhino (Dark Green)
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: thfonz98 on December 22, 2005, 10:19:25 AM: my dad still uses my first ball, blue maxim.

when i go bowling with him just for fun, i can still whack the pocket but cant carry chit.

my first reactive was a tornado i just recently gave away. my first game i went front 5 and didnt even hit 200(great spare shooter huh!)
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: debs130 on December 22, 2005, 10:24:24 AM: My first ball was a 10- or 12-lb Purple White Dot.

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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Horse Tooth on December 22, 2005, 10:30:28 AM: My first ball was a Columbia Black Knight. Thankfully I moved on to the Columbia Green Messenger from there.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Tweener92 on December 22, 2005, 10:32:19 AM: 16 lbs Teal Rhino Pro!!!
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: 9andaWiggle on December 22, 2005, 10:34:02 AM: Brunswick, I think it was called an "LTD"? 10# Black, hard rubber bought at K-Mart. I learned how to throw a hook with this ball (first ball I had drilled finger-tip). I was 10, and went through 3 of these due to them cracking. Shot 215 with it before moving on to a 12# LT-48.

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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: tgs300 on December 22, 2005, 10:38:08 AM: 10 pound blue and black AMFlite....still sitting on the rack in my garage.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: JohnP on December 22, 2005, 10:40:01 AM: Aah, the memories. 1963. Brunswick Black Beauty, 16 lb, drilled conventional. About a year later, I had the driller add a set of finger tip holes on the other side from the conventional holes. Tore my thumb up (incorrect thumb pitch), but convinced me fingertip was the way to go. Then bought aa AMF three dot. Best I can remember, both were $26.95. -- JohnP
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: RSalas on December 22, 2005, 10:47:53 AM: An 11-pound, gold-colored Galaxie 300, purchased at Kmart. However, that particular Kmart didn't have a press, so what we got was a coupon for reduced-price drilling at a pro shop at one of the local bowls. Turns out the guy who ran that shop was a quack (although we didn't know it at the time), and he *really* messed up the ball. Needless to say, I didn't have that ball for very long.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: drillbit on December 22, 2005, 10:52:47 AM: A Brunswick Black Diamond in 13 lbs. Thus began my love/hate relationship with Big B.

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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Matt Fortney on December 22, 2005, 11:00:10 AM: ebonite gyro.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Nollster on December 22, 2005, 11:09:54 AM: Red Ebonite Gyro Urethane.....wanted to get a Hammer, but didn't know why anyone would spend over $100 for a BOWLING BALL!?!?!?
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: towrofstgh on December 22, 2005, 11:10:54 AM: 9lb Brunswick Fireball
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: SteveAustin2808 on December 22, 2005, 11:16:14 AM: 8 pound Lime Green White Dot

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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: BigHorhn on December 22, 2005, 11:21:28 AM: Not sure of the company,AMF or Ebonite Firebolt. About 20 something years ago.
Could have been the thunderbolt. Peace.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: shelley on December 22, 2005, 12:02:09 PM: A 10# black Brunswick (Black Beauty, maybe) back in '88 or so. Got it at K-mart for $20, and it cost about as much to drill at the local house. Second was a Brunswick Cyclone in '99 that I still have, been plugged three times and needs a fourth.

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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: BrunsNick on December 22, 2005, 12:16:09 PM: 8# Ebonite Mark VII Jade pearl
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Smash49 on December 22, 2005, 12:27:17 PM: I remember one of my first bowling balls. It came from KMart I think and was a 10lb VIP. I still have a ball I bowled bantams with a 14lb Brunswick Black Diamond.

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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Wylie on December 22, 2005, 01:16:53 PM: Black and Grey Galaxy 300
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Doug Sterner on December 22, 2005, 01:19:24 PM: My first ball was a 14# Grey Ebonite Rainbow.

The first decent ball I had was a 16# Black U Dot with 3 sets of plugs in it.

My first NEW ball was a Black Hammer. In fact I still have that ball...
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: eheilman on December 22, 2005, 02:14:30 PM: 10 lb Ebonite Galaxie 300 from KMart. Still have this ball floating around in a closet.

Got my first "real ball" after that a SportsTec Reactive Urethane with grips...ahh the memories.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: BrooklynSlop on December 22, 2005, 02:22:34 PM: LOL, yeah... My first ball was waaaaay back in... JULY!!!!!

It was an Original 14 lbs Storm X-Factor.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: tommymo on December 22, 2005, 02:28:04 PM: 10lb. Ebonite Maxim, Royal Blue it said but it was a purple swirlish thing. My mother picked it out. I got picked on constantly about it. My first good ball was a 16lb. Rhino Pro Blue Pearl.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: ImaRedbird on December 22, 2005, 02:38:30 PM: a 12lb red dan carter performance, then got an Ice who i named Iceces because she was so cold to me and wouldn't work for me at first.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: a_ak57 on December 22, 2005, 02:41:48 PM: Still have it. The Solder Zone.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Luke909 on December 22, 2005, 02:41:53 PM: my very first ball was a 10 lb green target zone, first hook ball was a 13 lb Brunswick groove urethane/cranberry.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Tex on December 22, 2005, 02:54:54 PM: AMF Amflite 3-dot, black rubber seems it was a 14lb.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: ClarkD on December 22, 2005, 02:56:26 PM: Manhattan Rubber Ball, 16 lb, paisley color
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: mfd301 on December 22, 2005, 02:58:02 PM: AMF 3 Dot Classic was the first ball that i ever owned that was for me and only me. If i remember my brother and i had an old Manhattan that we both used when ever our dad used to take us out bowling.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Sawuser on December 22, 2005, 03:23:49 PM: I weighed 110lbs & the pro shop guy sold me a 16lb brunswick fireball in 1959.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Pin_Daddy on December 22, 2005, 03:32:42 PM: 16 # Quantum Elite LE off Ebay!

Man the good old days...hey wait, I got that last spring/summer...

and still use it...

somehow I feel like I don't fit in
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: droolly on December 22, 2005, 03:39:49 PM: Mine was a plastic 14lb red Budweiser ball with white lettering, drilled finger tip with no grips. My high with it was 235 and I had it given to me back when I was 13 or so.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: hallofamer on December 22, 2005, 03:46:19 PM: A 14 lb. black Manhattan Rubber drilled semi-fingertip. Later graduated to a 16 lb. Columbia caramel white dot, fingertip no less! Boy could I hook that monster!
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: dpunky on December 22, 2005, 05:29:05 PM: 10 lb Columbia 300 White Dot (grey charcoal color one from the early 90's) drilled conventional grip. I had it plugged and redrilled to learn throwing the fingertip grip.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: raiderh20boy on December 22, 2005, 05:44:56 PM: First time Jr bowler in 1961 Brunswick Crown Jewel Black followed by a Gold flake Crown Jewel. Sure wish I kept the gold one. Worth BIG BUCKS now I bet!!!!!. 44 years later, former PBA, Storm, The BOWLERS Company, gets it done for me.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: DON DRAPER on December 22, 2005, 06:53:18 PM: my first ball that i bought was a brunswick triple crown from jc penney in 1985---i think it cost $39.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: JessN16 on December 22, 2005, 07:06:41 PM: Brunswick Black Beauty 8-pounder when I was eight. I still used it to shoot the 10-pin as a teenager until it cracked between the finger holes one night, then literally broke about three shots later. A big chunk came out of it.

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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Scolai on December 22, 2005, 07:10:35 PM: 14 lb Columbia 300 Black Knight.

It went up in a blaze of glory when I tossed it on a bonfire. It had been eaten by a ball return and was rendered useless. It was replaced with a 15 lb Black Knight that the center bought as a replacement.

To this day, that bowling center has a sign up that says, "Use personal equipment at your own risk".
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Panic on December 22, 2005, 07:25:09 PM: mine was a AZO Ultima Pro. still have, hooks like its brand new.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: GutterDawg on December 22, 2005, 08:29:02 PM: My first was a Brunswick "Mark Roth" that I picked up back in 1984 or 85. I think it was a K-Mart special like so many others seem to have started with. I still have it and it's a pretty good ball for picking up (or at least trying to pick up) 10 pins.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: comy24 on December 22, 2005, 10:21:11 PM: My first ball was a 16# columbia yellow dot back in 1989
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Splitz on December 23, 2005, 05:51:19 AM: 16# Brunswick Black Diamond. 1968?
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: MonkeyBoy on December 23, 2005, 07:01:12 AM: 13lb ebonite maxim sparkle blue
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Bowling General on December 23, 2005, 07:20:43 AM: a brown thing and still have it
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: chitown on December 23, 2005, 08:26:20 AM: My first was an ebonite ball. It was black and didn't say anything else on the ball.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: da Shiv on December 23, 2005, 08:30:13 AM: 16# Brunswick Black Beauty, inherited from my uncle. (I didn't start bowling until I was a 180# 17 year old.)

First ball I bought for myself was an LT-48 (original).

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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Badger856 on December 23, 2005, 08:41:41 AM: My best Christmas memory..I was eight and Santa brought me a 8lb Gold swirled Lucky Strike bowling ball. Even had the Shamrock logo on it.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: baltimora on December 24, 2005, 08:40:14 PM: 12 lb Brunswick Butterscotch colored plastic ball. I thought I was styling!
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: BrunsMike on December 24, 2005, 08:52:54 PM: My 1st ball was a K-Mart Special. No idea what it was, I just remember it was a deep blue pearl and plastic 11#.

Since then ive had more then 150 balls with the # still increasing.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: wick3d on December 24, 2005, 08:57:58 PM: mine was an 14# Brunswick Rhino LE

Edited on 12/24/2005 9:47 PM
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: team_storm on December 24, 2005, 09:40:55 PM: MY FIRST BALL WAS A BRUNSWICK ZONE

I WAS 11

15# BLUE WITH YELLOW WRITING

YELLOW TIPS

I BOWLED MY FIRST 200 GAME WITH IT THE FIRST WEEK I GOT IT

AND I STILL HAVE IT AND USE IT FOR A BACK-UP BALL TO MY STORM PARADIGM

I HAVE HAVE 10 BALLS IN BETWEEN THOSE 2 AND NOTHING COMPARED TO THE ZONE OR THE PARADIGM
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: northface28 on December 24, 2005, 10:09:12 PM: Summer of 2001, it was a Columbia Surge.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: nd300 on December 25, 2005, 07:24:42 PM: First ball given to me by my Dad was an old Don Carter red and black ball. O don't remember the name of it.
The first ball that I went and bought on my own was the Yellow Dot.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Stever5000 on December 25, 2005, 09:30:13 PM: My first ball as a lefty was a K-Mart blue axis ball when I was like 7 or something.
My first ball as a righty was a Hammer Nail.
Both have long been retired.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: killswitch66 on December 26, 2005, 08:45:56 AM: my first ball ever a was some kind of swirl ball of all diffrent colors i think it was columbia (6 pounds), my first hook ball was a monster bruiser (14 pounds)
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: ctturtle on December 26, 2005, 08:47:58 AM: An 8 lb AMF Star Ball, I was 10. Had it for years and use to throw it thumbless just to see it hook. Man that thing left some weird shots. Great memories, thanks.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: RaginCajun on December 26, 2005, 09:13:45 AM: Mine was Ebonites Thunderbolt. That ball was amazing
for me. I had plenty of great scores with it.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: laner7pin on December 26, 2005, 09:17:19 AM: First ball when I was 8 was an old "Lucky Strike" that my dad bought for me from Sportmart back in 87. Still have it in the closet at home.

After getting back into bowling in 97 first ball was a 13lb Blue Hammer, bowled 2 finger with it for about 6 months then used it as a spare ball while I got a 15lb Combat Zone Tracer (started to use my thumb).

Now I have too many balls....
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Bernard Byars Jr on December 26, 2005, 09:27:31 AM: My first ball was a 12 pound Personal 300 from K-Mart.
Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: sdbowler on December 26, 2005, 09:38:10 AM: Early 80's was my first ball that I recall having my own and it was the Brunswick Twister.
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Post by: MonsterSmashR on December 26, 2005, 09:42:10 AM: A 10 lbs. White Dot( Brown, purple sparkle.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Hammer3003 on December 26, 2005, 03:05:00 PM: eight pound purple sparkle columbia white dot
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: JVan19 on December 26, 2005, 03:24:21 PM: Manhattan Rubber ball.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: LuvThatWhiteDot on December 26, 2005, 05:15:05 PM: 10 lb. peachy-pink White Dot. I was 10 years old at the time
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: MI 2 AZ on December 26, 2005, 09:21:29 PM: 11# Brunswick Black Beauty, circa 1963, drilled by Cass Sicilia.
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Title: Re: Do you remember your first bowling ball?
Post by: Dysturbed on December 26, 2005, 09:50:13 PM: I dont remember the name of it but it was #8 polyester. It was dark red and it had a dinosaur on the side of it. I got it around 1987. I wish i could remember the darn name of it. Its going to kill me the rest of the night.