It's amazing how many bowlers I have heard of or read about (but never seen) since I was a kid that are showing up on your uploads. The "Big Team Era" when Pete Carter bowled for the Detroit Stroh's and Bluth for the St. Louis BUDS must have been an exciting time for bowling. And anything that Jack Buck touches is a plus.....
Ray Bluth was the 1st Pro Bowler I ever saw on TV. Oh Wow! Pete Carter getting nasty with that Brooky Celebration in the 6th frame of the second game. LOL. Ray answers back - Boom Baby! Announcers calls Carters Brooky as "Out in Ebbets Field" Nice.
This was quite a match. I was a bit surprised, early on, to see how much trouble Bluth had with the lanes. Bluth was some competitor. I know he showed up on early PBA events but I can't seem to find him. These guys were real gents. And having Jack Buck announce these matches was, indeed, a big plus.
So... you like bowling, as do I. Here's a little controversial for you. 1. Bluth did NOT "throw a powerful ball". The game back in those days was to "nurse the ball up the track hoping to hit high-flush". The very best at that was Don Carter. Next, probably, Dick Weber. 2. The ONLY player I ever saw from that era who threw "strong roll", was Billy Welu*. So, who am I to "question the conventional wisdom of the past"? Well, I'm an ex-PBAer from the '70s, a local USBC HOF member and a guy you likely never heard of. But at one time I held the all-time record for scoring average at the ABC Masters.... bowled 300 more than 100 times... so regardless, I ain't "chopped liver" when it comes to bowling. *Once when I was a teen and keeping score for Welu and the Budwiser Team in an exhibition match, Welu told me, "Dick Hoover could drink a case of beer faster than any man I ever saw". That's a little "bowling lore" for you. :)
its sad to hear about all of the good works of these men, especially world traveled Pete Carter spreading the word about bowling that resulted in bowling alleys every 2 miles or so anywhere i have lived only to watch what they call technological advances turn most folks off to the idea as what used to be 17 bowling alleys in my city of 100,000 in 1981 become 2 bowling alleys not accessible by bus way out there by the only movie theater left in area (there used to be 12 in 1981). People have been priced out and this bs about polyurithane and oil patterns…why? Why have they scared the masses away?
It's amazing how many bowlers I have heard of or read about (but never seen) since I was a kid that are showing up on your uploads. The "Big Team Era" when Pete Carter bowled for the Detroit Stroh's and Bluth for the St. Louis BUDS must have been an exciting time for bowling. And anything that Jack Buck touches is a plus.....
Doug Cooper Patterson coop67
There was even a team representing Falstaff
Where have the good old days of bowling gone?
Ray Bluth puts a tremendous amount of roll on the ball.
That's my dad Pete Carter
Proud you are! He's a fine bowler, for sure.
what a nail biter your dad got robbed
Seemed like a really nice guy.
Ray Bluth was the 1st Pro Bowler I ever saw on TV. Oh Wow! Pete Carter getting nasty with that Brooky Celebration in the 6th frame of the second game. LOL. Ray answers back - Boom Baby! Announcers calls Carters Brooky as "Out in Ebbets Field" Nice.
oooooooooooo close! what a match!
This was quite a match. I was a bit surprised, early on, to see how much trouble Bluth had with the lanes. Bluth was some competitor. I know he showed up on early PBA events but I can't seem to find him. These guys were real gents. And having Jack Buck announce these matches was, indeed, a big plus.
who is the announcer
So... you like bowling, as do I. Here's a little controversial for you.
1. Bluth did NOT "throw a powerful ball". The game back in those days was to "nurse the ball up the track hoping to hit high-flush". The very best at that was Don Carter. Next, probably, Dick Weber.
2. The ONLY player I ever saw from that era who threw "strong roll", was Billy Welu*.
So, who am I to "question the conventional wisdom of the past"? Well, I'm an ex-PBAer from the '70s, a local USBC HOF member and a guy you likely never heard of. But at one time I held the all-time record for scoring average at the ABC Masters.... bowled 300 more than 100 times... so regardless, I ain't "chopped liver" when it comes to bowling.
*Once when I was a teen and keeping score for Welu and the Budwiser Team in an exhibition match, Welu told me, "Dick Hoover could drink a case of beer faster than any man I ever saw". That's a little "bowling lore" for you. :)
its sad to hear about all of the good works of these men, especially world traveled Pete Carter spreading the word about bowling that resulted in bowling alleys every 2 miles or so anywhere i have lived only to watch what they call technological advances turn most folks off to the idea as what used to be 17 bowling alleys in my city of 100,000 in 1981 become 2 bowling alleys not accessible by bus way out there by the only movie theater left in area (there used to be 12 in 1981). People have been priced out and this bs about polyurithane and oil patterns…why? Why have they scared the masses away?
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