PBA 60th Anniversary Collection: All-Time Televised 300 Games. Steve Hoskins vs. Walter Ray Williams Jr. in the 1997 PBA Ebonite Challenge in Rochester, NY. Subscribe to the PBA on RU-vid: tinyurl.com/PBARU-vid #PBA #GoBowling
The deepest you'll ever see Walter Ray shoot! Love seeing all the old equipment! Takes me back to my teenage years and wanting every ball I watch thrown on T.V.
You may have seen that the announcer stated that this was the 11th, not 12th, TV 300. The reason is that on May 3, 1997, Jason Queen bowled a TV 300 at the ABC (Bud Light) Masters in Huntsville, AL. However, that event was not sanctioned as an official PBA event at the time. In May 2008, the PBA retroactively upgraded the Masters to PBA event status, and statistics for all PBA members were adjusted accordingly. One of those stats, of course, was Queen's 300, so every TV 300 between Queen's achievement and the May 2008 retroactive upgrade (eight total) was shifted back by one. Hope that clears the confusion.
I did note that discrepancy, and thank you for clarifying it. These announcers did a good job, but to me nothing will ever compare with Chris Schenkel and Bo Burton.
3:41 This 300 was ordained. This was supposed to end up a double pinochle, a 4-6-7-10 split all the way but for two miraculous pins that split each pair, barely getting the strike.
Agreed. Hoskins was crossing many boards, and if he was nervous, he sure didn't show it. WRW was also putting a lot more revs on the ball and playing deeper than his trademark down and in.
All the Animal Patterns just starts to become Ridiculous!!! The Game has changed so much since the days where a Top Bowler brought 3 Balls to a Tournament. Now, Bowlers drill 3 balls for every game// 72 balls for 24 games bowled!!! I understand the Balls are a way for the Companies to make money, and it gives good paying jobs to pros that have become injured and can't compete any longer. The amount of Balls that are made in a year is mind Boggling!!!! I bet, in the right bowlers hands, an old cuda-c // or an original Zone can still give Bowlers huge scores!!! I get the technology= Improvement= profit, but it's almost comical when the ball gets more credit than the bowler who makes consistently great shots and avoids opens!!!
No, they are actually not. I remember there was a professional bowler on TV sometime during the 2017 WSOB with the last name Pedersen, but was in no way related to Randy Pedersen.
