I look forward to these every Saturday when I was a teenager. And Marshall Holman is my favorite bowler 👌👍

Great vids. My era. When professionals bowled with subpar equipment compared to todays standards and still got it done. Much more talented than todays professionals.

wow this video has a lot going on, the bowling, the outfits, the hair, the ford pinto and yaz with a shotgun. thnx for the show.

This is a sensational find - with clips from the inaugural Hall of Fame class it looks like! Well done.

@joeyoconnor3039

4 ай бұрын

And the commercials..😊

WOW! Just WOW! Amazing, truly amazing. Thank you so much! Now Mike, if you can find the telecast of the 1976 Monroe-Matic Toledo Open, I will be in heaven.

@danielschrafel3158

10 ай бұрын

Indeed! That's another one of the great white whales of bowling tapes. That, and Earl's 299 in Cleveland.

this is the year i started league bowling, i'm 74 yrs old and still at it. i luv bowling.

@MrChristopherHaas

2 ай бұрын

me too. Age 12. Won my first trophy, high game, 279. Eleven strikes. 1000s of games later i tied it twice, never beat it. I remember missing head pin and still getting a strike lol

@steveperry1344

2 ай бұрын

@@MrChristopherHaas it's funny how you can really miss the shot and it still goes sometimes, then you know it's your night.

@MrChristopherHaas

2 ай бұрын

@@steveperry1344 so true.

Yay please keep them coming. Very valuable video ventlemen.

One thing that hasn't changed since 1970's is if you leave a solid 8 pin , the five is still not deflecting in to the 8 pin, it's going straight back. Same thing for left handers, five is going straight back, you leave the 9 pin, not deflecting to the 8 pin.

@danielschrafel3158

9 ай бұрын

Durbin explained it the best. On a flush hit, the headpin hits the two, then the butt of the headpin pushes the five a bit to the right so the ball can chop it off while driving through.

Harahan has a great delivery.

Thank you very much!

Yellow outfit man looks like he's in his mid 50's but he's only 39 here.

Tim has the best RBF ever

marshall holman at that age looks like the guy that does the hot dog snowboarding in the olympics.

@MrChristopherHaas

2 ай бұрын

looks like “Fast Times at Ridemont High” lol

Thanks for this its great and very clear, haha look at Holman all that hair and look at those clothes

i consider this a changing of the guard right here

luv schenkle and burton.

Marshall with no mustache and lots of 70s hair

@MrChristopherHaas

2 ай бұрын

how did he lose so much of it so quickly? pressure i guess

@akbarshabazz-jenkins7847

Ай бұрын

Now he has a mustache and no hair and about to be in his 70s lol

@akbarshabazz-jenkins7847

Ай бұрын

​@@MrChristopherHaasGenetics and stress. Every pro bowler feels "pressure".

@MrChristopherHaas

Ай бұрын

@@akbarshabazz-jenkins7847 ive noticed that many of them ended up prematurely bald.

@akbarshabazz-jenkins7847

Ай бұрын

@@MrChristopherHaas Even today lol just look at EJ Tackett and Anthony Simonsen lol

At beginning of video it is stated that this is Mr. Holmans first broadcast. This is the Tournament of Champions where a pro must win a tournament to qualify. Were their non televised touraments?

@Revs300

2 ай бұрын

He won a PBA summer stop in 1975 that wasn’t televised

@MrChristopherHaas

2 ай бұрын

@@Revs300 thank you.

How about the pants some have on.really cool.

Absolutely great. Also, it's always nice to see McCune trounced... the cheat.

@obijuana

9 ай бұрын

Wasn't he the guy who came up with the "soaker"?

@MrChristopherHaas

6 ай бұрын

@@obijuanaplease explain

should be billy hardknox, he gave it a run.

What happened to Hardwick?? Black eye??

@20alphabet

10 ай бұрын

He was perpetually unhealthy.

@taxpayer1962

8 ай бұрын

low iron deficiency anemia I had that when I was a teenager

@MrChristopherHaas

2 ай бұрын

@@taxpayer1962thank you, was afraid someone beat him up

1975 ToC please!

@Revs300

9 ай бұрын

That’s one I’d love to see

8:09 - PBA pays so much less today when factored for inflation. About the only sport I know of that has happened to. Look at 40:00 to see that even those who placed in the teens made good money.

@41:44 Chris hardwick

Holman was one hell of a bowler but that Ted Bundy serial killer hairstyle was not necessary.

Wonder if McCune was using a soaker?

@MrChristopherHaas

6 ай бұрын

whats a “soaker”?

@pablolacruz2652

6 ай бұрын

He was soaking his plastic bowling balls in a acetone like solution such as Trichloroethylene. This would make the ball very soft, thereby allowing more of the ball to grip the lane, which would increase the hook.@@MrChristopherHaas

@Ramon-oy5fq

6 ай бұрын

​@MrChristopherHaas Back in the 70s we would soak bowling balls in paint thinner to soften the surface of the ball. It would hook like crazy on heavy oiled wooden lanes.

@MrChristopherHaas

6 ай бұрын

@@Ramon-oy5fq ahhh. thank you

@mrwp819300

4 ай бұрын

​@@Ramon-oy5fqIt was definitely hooking in this video. I bet he did.

Holman is pretty obnoxious

Some terrible hair on HotHead Holman. 1970s white belts and bells. . McCune dressed like a canary. Burton kissing Holman's rear.

@beeemm2578

2 ай бұрын

Lol...helluva time eh? 🤣

lol hardwick never had "talent"

All those stone 8s on Lane 27! 😮

My Grandma hated holman, she called him creep holman 😮. 😂