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JessN16

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Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« on: April 02, 2007, 11:28:35 AM »
All I remember about this guy was that his win occurred sometime in the early/mid-1990s, because I swear I remember him using a pink Hammer to win it.

The telecast was, I believe, on wood lanes. This guy was a very tall, slim guy, and I never saw him before or since. (NOT C.K. Moore, in case someone was thinking that -- Moore was a lefty and this guy was a righty.)

What made this stand out in my head was the guy was literally throwing a straight ball. This was in the late urethane/early resin days and everyone was hooking the hide off the ball. Everyone except this guy, who was throwing it right up the middle, maybe even on the Brooklyn side by design, and he WON.

I've forgotten his name and it's a long shot anyone else will remember it, but I watched him win it on ESPN and couldn't believe my eyes.

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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #16 on: April 04, 2007, 06:00:42 PM »
Bruce Hamilton (True Value Open - 2/15/92)


Was our ballreviews.com owner a tour winner wow that is interesting to me.
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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #17 on: April 04, 2007, 08:36:46 PM »
Jim Johnson Jr was the one that passed away. Jimmy is Don Johnson's son.

Alan Bishop and Andrew Neuer I believe are leftys.

Jimmy Keeth is a pretty big cranker.

Mike Shady can be considered a tweener. Definitely not a straighty.

Bruce Hamilton's win I believe was with am X-Calibur
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Cobalt Bomb

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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #18 on: April 04, 2007, 08:51:37 PM »
It was Steve Cook. I believe the only national title with the Pink Hammer.
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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #19 on: April 05, 2007, 01:23:15 AM »
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Eric Adolphson (Seattle Open - 5/30/92)
Alan Bishop (Quaker State Open - 2/1/92)
Ray Edwards (El Paso Open - 7/6/91)
Steve Fields (Seattle Open - 6/12/93)
Bruce Hamilton (True Value Open - 2/15/92)
Jimmy Johnson (Brunswick Memorial World Open - 4/18/92)
Jimmy Keeth (Tums Classic - 4/18/92)
Andy Neuer (Bud Light Hall of Fame Championship - 2/19/94)
Mike Shady (Earl Anthony PBA Open - 5/23/92)


Wow, great list. I remember watching all these shows. Andy Neuer, the lefty. Mike Shady the stroker. Steve Fields' win was great, because he was from California like me. I think he was throwing a Power Torq. I remember Ray Edwards throwing a polished Black Urethane Rhino Pro back in the day. I wish I still had the tape of Jimmy Keeth ripping a Columbia U Dot (I'm pretty sure that was the ball), he had the whole pocket and some major can openers that scrambled my brains!

Good post guys,
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JessN16

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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2007, 03:41:32 PM »
Thanks for all the help, guys. None of the names just hopped right out at me (I was hoping someone else would remember definitively). It's also possible the ball wasn't a pink Hammer but instead a bright red ball coupled with bad television reception.

Jess
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Ragnar

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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2007, 03:50:52 PM »
That clip w/ Ernie shows him hooking the ball just about as much as I've ever seen him hook it.  Half the time I've seen him (live and on TV) he's playing a fallback shot.
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Keith Frye

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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2007, 04:05:18 PM »
Jess, I'm pretty sure you are thinking of Jim Johnson Jr. (who has passed away).  He was using a 3D Offset Hammer (violet or purple in color).  He threw straight off the right corner.
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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #23 on: April 07, 2007, 10:58:49 PM »
PHIL WARE
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JessN16

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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2007, 02:32:23 AM »
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Jess, I'm pretty sure you are thinking of Jim Johnson Jr. (who has passed away).  He was using a 3D Offset Hammer (violet or purple in color).  He threw straight off the right corner.


After watching the linked video clip, I don't think it was him. The guy I'm thinking about was thinner than Johnson.

Jess
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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #25 on: April 08, 2007, 03:03:02 AM »
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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #26 on: April 08, 2007, 10:44:30 PM »
was it chris warren?
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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #27 on: April 08, 2007, 11:05:21 PM »
Chris Warren...throwing it straight?  HA!
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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #28 on: April 09, 2007, 02:50:22 PM »
Imagine me showing up for practice one day and saying heh...who's that guy thowing it so good...and they say...."That's Dave Davis PBA hall of famer and best style ever".

Then several months later I show up and they go..."Hey...here is your new teammate...Jimmy Keeth(PBA winner)....as I watched him AMP it up in to the stratasphere.  All this in my first year back bowling after about a 20 year break!  They call me lucky for a reason(sometimes).

Keeth used to say..."comeon fluffer!".  (I'm not a fluffer but to him.....).

In his eyes if you couldn't amp it up...you couldn't bowl!  

Several months I got to meet him on rival teams and had one of my best days.
I won't forget it!  R.I.P. AMPMASTER!

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Re: Help remembering the name of a tour winner...
« Reply #29 on: April 09, 2007, 03:02:46 PM »
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Chris Warren...throwing it straight?  HA!
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I've seen him to it.  I almost had  a heart attack.
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