I hear you about the only one ball in the 1980s and mine was the Black Hammer . I loved that ball guess that is why of the 4 balls I have 2 are hammers.
Back in the day when I was first serious about bowling, an "arsenal" usually consisted of a rubber ball for drier lanes, and a urethane for oilier lanes. Most guys were just beginning to get interested in the Columbia Yellow Dot, but most guys still bowled with rubber.
I hear you about the only one ball in the 1980s and mine was the Black Hammer . I loved that ball guess that is why of the 4 balls I have 2 are hammers.
My late 80's/early 90's rotating arsenal for the Sunday Youth Classic travel league was:
Red pearl Fab Hammer
Cobalt Rhino
LT-48 (my 300 ball)
White dot for spares
When I was a sophomore bowling in college at MSU we were also bowling in a men's league at Royal Scot. I never rolled a bleeder, but a few of us also did some work in the pro shop off and on, and we drilled some of these new balls called the Nu-Line X-Calibur.
The original Reactive Resin ball. The rest is history.
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Bill
Where I bowled in the early '80s, on league night there might be 2 or 3 people that brought 2 balls. My wife was one. She used her new Black Hammer almost exclusively, but there were a couple of houses where she brought her old cheap plastic ball along for picking up a 10 pin.
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