Found a Brunswick Black Beauty

[martinezsam2495]

I gave it back to Ish at the desk and reported it lost,
I did the right thing, someone wanted me to take it or let them take it, then I thought if I left my ball at the bowling alley, it would suck not to get it back.

[Zothen]

You did good kid!

Zothen

[noeymc]

good man

[Keithalw]

Theres so many dishonest people that would have thought oh heck a free ball... I know if it was my ball I would be hoping someone turned it in as I would do the same... Good job bro...

[GeoLes]

I would not cost you too much to have it plugged and redrilled.........(kidding).

virtue is such a rare thing these days. May it come back to you 10-fold.

[75lockwood]

Haha, after i saw this thread i went looking for treasures at the local ally, and found not 1 but 2 black beauty's! both of which had only been drilled once and where in great shape..... i wanna have one of them re drilled lol

[AZBowla]

Good on ya for returning the ball. I would likely do the same thing, unless I happened to see a DV8 Nightmare sitting on the "retired" rack drilled for a left handed player. I don't think I could pass that up. My moral compass has limits.

I noticed last night at the alley I go to there were all sorts of "retired" balls - balls that people just put on the house racks and left for someone else to find. I looked at a few but didn't see anything that I wanted, but if someone is looking for their first ball, it might not be a bad idea to check the racks at your local center and see if there's any gems hiding among the house balls. You can have it plugged and re-drilled for a fraction of the cost of a new ball.

Thrift stores are another good place to look. I've seen quite a few Columbia 300 balls in there.

[GeoLes]

True. I found my Columbia TI 300 at a garage sale. Got it for a song, had it drilled and resurfaced. It is the best of my balls when it comes to effectiveness.

See, You can teach an old ball new tricks.

[Brownswick]

Just a few weeks ago I saw someone bowling with a Brunswick Black Diamond ball. I asked them about it, and they said it was their father's ball and they'd been bowling with it since he gave it to them years ago.

My first bowling ball was a Black Beauty. I can still smell the scent of rubber and cork that would waft through the air when drilling up a Brunswick Black Beauty. It was an unmistakeable smell that you could experience nowhere else but in a bowling pro shop back in the day. That and the scent of freshly resurfaced wood lanes are two of the things I miss most from those days. Nothing like them in the game today.

[75lockwood]

Just a few weeks ago I saw someone bowling with a Brunswick Black Diamond ball. I asked them about it, and they said it was their father's ball and they'd been bowling with it since he gave it to them years ago.

My first bowling ball was a Black Beauty. I can still smell the scent of rubber and cork that would waft through the air when drilling up a Brunswick Black Beauty. It was an unmistakeable smell that you could experience nowhere else but in a bowling pro shop back in the day. That and the scent of freshly resurfaced wood lanes are two of the things I miss most from those days. Nothing like them in the game today.

well then, i will just have to see if i can get one redrilled and bowl with it on wood lane :D