Welcome!  I would suggest you pick a company or two and purchase their midpriced offerings.  Since you have been gone 10 years many things have changed.  Bowling ball companies mass produce balls like they are going out of style.  

The mid priced offerings from each company should run about 150 at any proshop.
Brunswick-->Monster series  www.brunswickbowling.com
Ebonite-->Vortex Series  www.ebonite.com
Hammer-->Blade Series  www.hammerbowling.com
Track-->havoc series www.trackbowling.com

I am a Brunswick fan, but I wouldn't only recommend a brunswick to you.  I have seen great things from the Hammer blade series.  You could set up a nice 3 ball aresenal with them.  

Hammer Blades:
Sharp Blade
Blade Reactive not the pearl the solid
Sling Blade

Brunswick:
Warp Zone alittle more than 150 maybe 170ish
Monster Bruiser
Power Groove reactive under a hundred at most shops

Ebonite:
V2 Strong or V2 Particle
V2 Sanded
V2 clean or V2 dry

Storm makes great stuff too.  

These are nothing more than suggestions.  I hope I can help.  Feel free to message me with any questions.

Andrew

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Edited on 4/26/2004 4:18 AM

First ball I would suggest is a White Dot.  Unless you are one very talented bowler, making spares with an agressive covered modern ball is nothing more than a crap shoot.  It is a whole lot easier to throw a shot similar to your strike ball with the plastic knowning it won't hook, than to try to kill a ball whose sole purpose is to hook.

Second ball I'd suggest is a pearl reactive from just about any company.  On the medium dry lanes you want something to get down the lane easily, not something that wants to hook at 35 feet.  This will let you throw a straighter line and still have more than enough finish to give you the pin action you need for strings of strikes.

I would then get a light or medium load particle ball.  It would augment the resin ball by giving you a more controlled gentler break into the pins, a shot that is easier to control when the lanes are breaking down into funny oil patterns where the resin ball reads too much.

From there you can polish the covers or scuff them to fine tune their reaction.  I'd probably just get one strike ball to start with and then when you can see what it does or doesn't do, you are in a better position to get a ball to complement the first one.