PBA 60th Anniversary Collection: All-Time Televised 300 Games. Steve Jaros vs. Ricky Ward in the 1999 PBA Chattanooga Open in Chattanooga, TN. Subscribe to the PBA on RU-vid: tinyurl.com/PB... #PBA #GoBowling
I found that even though bowling is a competitive sport, and of course, everyone wants to win, there is such a comradery with other bowlers. Everyone is happy for the other person when they do well or achieve special goals.
You may have seen that the announcer stated that this was the 13th, not 14th, 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.
1. Interesting that Jaros once had that 129 on TV and goes perfect here! 2. Doesn't he also share the dubious PBA record (with Marshall Holman) of losing 10 straight matches on TV? 3. I remember reading that this particular PBA event was taped delayed (Saturday evening to be aired Sunday afternoon); yet it originally didn't air because of a technical error in the production truck?
Good question. At the time, it was the 13th, as Jason Queen wasn't officially credited with his 300, since that was the ABC Masters, not a PBA event. However, Queen was retroactively (rightfully) credited with an official televised 300 (the 11th), which is why there's confusion in the order.
