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SpareTalk's Rod Weaver, former long-time league secretary, and author of the new book, "More Than Just a Game", discusses his experiences with the Mens Maryland Suburban Traveling League.

soft roll distributorship

one of the benefits to
the bowlers that came from
communications through the MMSTL website
was that the door was open for product
imports into the United States emails
from Canada's John Honeyford led to a
further friendship and meeting with
Canadians Greg Peteraitis and Mike Wood
greg was in close touch with the soft
roll bowling ball manufacturer Steve
Phipps who was just starting out in the
business during that time of the early
2000s Peteraitis told me about these new
balls with an exceptional grip to them
he was very much into the manufacturing
process and had a lot of knowledge about
the ball composition durometer
measurements and other details Peteraitis
and Wood made a couple of trips down to
the states and I met up with them at AMF
College Park
i tried the soft rolls and they
definitely had a different feel to them
like a softer rubber evidenced by the
way they rolled and broke that is hooked
and curved on the lane greg asked if I
would be interested in being the US
distributor of for the soft rolls a
request in which I was honored to accept
i presumed that Phipps bowling
compensated Greg with a nominal profit
on each set that he could sell which was
perfectly acceptable to me
getting the balls
approved i informed the National Duckben
Bowling Congress that a new line of
bowling balls was coming from FIPS
bowling in Canada and in reply they
requested that I bring them one of the
balls to be examined i subsequently
brought one of the first two balls that
I purchased from Greg to the national
office afterward I hadn't heard back
from the Congress for about a week or
two so I revisited the office at AMF
Southwest
as it turned out the ball I gave them
ended up getting cut in half which was a
little unexpected but not too
surprising however nothing was found to
be any different than a normal bowling
ball just solid all the way through so
the soft rolls were from that point on
officially approved by the NDBC
getting the word out in conjunction with
posting news of the new balls on the
MMSTL website the weekly booklet was a
natural vehicle for advertising this
exciting new product and it didn't take
long for the word to spread throughout
the bowling communities travel leaguers
Buster Datson and Billy Kennedy Jr were
among the first to roll with the balls
in league play amazingly each of these
bowlers on the first time trying the
balls rolled 499 sets the soft rolls got
an instant reputation at that
point ironing out the
details one of the areas that needed
improvement in the early variations of
these soft rolls was that the balls
would sometimes have a tough time making
it up the ball rack especially on the
left lane of a pair of lanes proprietor
Ralph Curry of White Oak Lanes explained
that the right lane of a pair of lanes
did enable more forward momentum when a
ball descended onto the ball return
which is why the right lane never had an
issue this shortcoming of the soft roll
ball was reported back to the
manufacturer and after the third
generation release of soft rolls the
issue was greatly improved
following
through the soft roll distributorship
through the MMSTL was never intended to
be a money-making venture but rather
just there to provide a service to
bowlers in and outside of the local area
the balls were basically sold at cost
for $110 a set $90 for the balls $20 for
shipping the league members and local
bowlers realized this and were always
very respectful on purchasing the
product
there were only a couple of occasions
that were minorly disappointing from a
distributing standpoint and both
involved dealing with mers outside the
local area shortly after the soft rolls
were officially approved by the Congress
in one encounter a northern DPBA pro was
anxious to get a set of balls and agreed
to send payment to me if I would
arranged to have the balls shipped
directly to him from Canada i knew the
player and consented of this especially
since it wouldn't have made sense to pay
for shipping to me and then send them
back to him but when I received his
check it was only for $108 it wasn't a
big deal to lose $2 just one of those
things a person might shake his head at
a pretty good number of bowling balls
were sold to bowlers in the Washington
metro area in Hagerstown from the
MMSTL eventually though the Baltimore
bowlers were serviced through a 10pin
bowling proprietor who bowled in one of
the higher average duckpin leagues in
the Baltimore area and those bowlers
prefer dealing through that league
member so the proprietor contacted
Fifths Bowling directly to get supplies
of balls sent down from Canada when
needed.


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