Pro Bowlers Tour - 1978 Lite Classic highlights

[Dedeyedan]

joe nuzzo bowls 3 nights a week at where i bowl at, and the best part is he was helping me out last night, he still shots good, 220 on the shark pattern on mondays

[a3fins]

Who the hell is Joe Nuzzo?

[SPKcrow]

@a3fins Joe Nuzzo bowls out of the Youngstown, Ohio area. I'm not too sure about his pro career, I just know that I've bowled a lot of tournaments with him and he is still a very good bowler. Wish I could be more help

[TheBrassHole]

Awsome.

[ccastro306]

around 2:37, is that Art Trask in the front row of the audience?

[BIGGREENLEAF1]

@ccastro306 In the red shirt??? Not even close to him...(Art Trask) But I saw where you got the idea from.

[20alphabet]

Was Larry Gray wearing his moms wig for this event?

[amrjr007]

Funny thing at the time the Impact ball was a heavy oil ball.

[mrbowling300]

great video as always. How high is the ceiling at Gable House?

[BowlingOldies]

I don't know how high the ceiling is. But I've never seen masking units like this at any other bowling center. I wonder if they were custom made for Gable House. I also wonder if Gable House is still in existence. It sure looks like a very old bowling center in the videos I have of it, and that was 30-odd years ago.

[BIGGREENLEAF1]

@BowlingOldies Yes Gable House in Torrance,CA is still going however when the remodeled several years ago they installed Brunswick 2000 masking and rack and hoods (ball return on approach area) and also installed new wood lanes as it was done right before the mass introduction of the synthetic lanes by Brunswick and AMF. This also was the house and pair of lanes Pete McCordic threw a 300 on ABC for $100,000 in 87. The center is owned by Jack Coogan who's son Kevin is a famous Indy car driver...

[leopoldmozart]

Awesome! I remember watching this in real time. A great tournament.

[NYDanno85]

The ball Dickinson is throwing - I saw Mark Roth with one in an early press shot. What is it, and who made it?

[top2pear]

It looks like an AMF Impact KE 21

[NYDanno85]

Sure enough. Thanks :)

Roth's the only one throwing a plastic ball, right?

[Muggel65]

the Ball Dickinson is playing is the AMF Impact ! I started playing Bowling with this Ball! I think it was a urethane Ball!

[Muggel65]

AMF - Impact KE 21

Specifications:

ColorBlack

CoverstockRubber

Core3-piece

Factory finishSanded

Lane ConditionsExtremely Light Oil

[amrjr007]

Dickinson was not using a AMF Impact he was using a AMF Exacta. The Impact's 1 inch dot on top of the fingers is a teal color where the Exacta is a white color as seen in Dickinson's close up of his ball.

I had both, but the Exacta hit very hard, better than the Impact.

FWIW, I did the three deck 30-pin test that the Impact commercial showed..any proper hit could hit the 30 pins down..

[parkit56]

The ball is in fact a KE 21. You can see the "IM" of the word "Impact" @ 0:07. Plus, the Exacta came out in the very early 70's along with the 3 Dot and Dick Weber All-Pro(and the new AMF block letter engraving). The Exacta was in the mid 80's D Hardness Scale. You had to bowl with a ball that had surface ie; LT-48, Mag 10. Both balls did have a tracer with AMF block letters. Dickinson would have pinged with an Exacta on that condition. AMF later used the KE 21 shell for the Dick Weber Powerball

[amrjr007]

Yes I stand corrected, Gary is using a Impact, the crappy color of the video hide the aqua color of the big dot above the fingers since it looked white like the Exacta. I bought my Exacta in 1976 in the pro shop of Madison Square Garden here in NYC. That day I also bought the original Earl Anthony magnum 6.

The Impact was marketing hype and all who owned one never bowled any better with it. However the ball that made a BIG difference in 77' was Brunswick's LT-48.

[amrjr007]

I still have my original from 77' that I drilled as well as a brand new one in storage. Still use the LT today on stupid conditions where everything else fails.. One thing about the LT is that is was designed to keep the pins low as it hits..still does that today as well when I use it...great ball

[parkit56]

I agree with you on the LT-48. It was a significant improvement on soft polyester balls. The LT-48 had a huge "footprint" compared to a Yellow Dot. I saw one the first LT-48 back in 1976 when the National Bowling Council held their Sports Spectacular at the then Wonder Bowl in San Antonio, Texas I don't recall who was on staff at the time, I just remember seeing the ball in the pro shop. The ball didn't have Rags' name on it , just block letters "LT-48" and the Brunswick "B".

[BasementBowling]

Great stuff, thanks for putting these on here. Mark Roth and Earl Anthony are my all-time favorites.