I Love It! When Steve Nagy bowled a perfect game Ed jumped up and congratulated him. That’s true sportsmanship.

@kevinjohnson4599

2 жыл бұрын

I AGREE with you 1,000% because this was when bowling was bowling. Like the NFL, NBA, MLB & MLS the bowling is now CRAP too & isn't worth watching anymore. LOVE YOUR COMMENT.

@MrChristopherHaas

4 ай бұрын

@@kevinjohnson4599 the perils of technology and the measly few who profit at the expense of the masses

Steve Nagy was my favorite bowler of all time. What a show man!

Growing up in the 1950's, I watched Championship Bowling regularly, and happened to watch this particular match with Steve Nagy's perfect game. A few years later I saw another perfect game on the show bowled by Stan Gifford. I believe the moderator then was Fred Wolf. The series Championship Bowling and other shows got me interested in bowling and I persuaded my father to take me to a bowling alley. It seemed so easy on television but in my first game I rolled a 12. I improved and I became a regular junior bowler, winter and summer, until I graduated from high school. I can remember the names of very few current bowlers, but the names of bowlers such as Don Carter, Dick Weber, Ray Bluth, Billy Welu, Buzz Fazio, Carman Salvino, Dick Hoover and Bill Lillard (who won ten consecutive matches on the show) are vivid on my mind.

My dad was in the bowling business in Denver and was a close personal friend of Steve Nagy. He used to stay in our home when he visited Denver. He was such a wonderful person and a great sense of humor. Champion bowler, too.

@hasalam1741

3 ай бұрын

Johnny W hired me to do the lanes at Monaco November 1974. I stayed until April 1985.

Wood lanes, rubber balls, pin boys, and back then they dressed the lanes with bug sprayers! These guys made magic with the basics. Now we have tons of technology in bowling and no one is that much better.

piece of history here! wikipedia doesn't mention it but it does reference Steve Nagy's recollection of Grazio Castellano. Maybe someone will update wikipedia. thanks for posting, neat to see how close the commentator is to the players too. I gotta think the players can hear him. This holds up better than a lot of 70's-80's tv footage.

I used to watch Championship Bowling every Saturday when I was a kid. Never missed it and watched all the great ones. Great to see.

.Wow! I have been watching bowling on TV since the late 60's so this was a little before my time...but IMO the best head-to-head matchup I have ever seen...Props to Ed Kawolics for rolling 4 consecutive 700 series...Imagine rolling a 715 and still coming up second best...I have watched several Steve Nagy matches...again a bit before my time but the guy has to be one of the best ever...

@MrChristopherHaas

4 ай бұрын

right there with Weber vs Hardwick finale in 67’

WOW. I remember as a kid on Saturday afternoon watching this show. I practiced drawing my numbers like on this show. Steve Nagy was the guy I remember because of his slide to the left after releasing the ball.

Thanks for posting this. I like the chalk cones for keeping your hands dry that are at the end of the ball returns. I bowled on lanes in the 1960s that still had those.

hooooooly smokes! THANK YOU for this HISTORICAL POST!

I just tuned into this- amazing to have seen Nagy's perfect game. I had known about it but had no idea that the video was in tact- or that I was tuned into it. GREAT!!!!

Beautiful 300

WHERE did you find this treasure?? I'm a big fan from way back -- started watching just a few years after this, and never knew that Nagy ever had a televised 300 game, never knew ANYBODY had one till much later. The first that I usually see mentioned is Jack Biondolillo's, in the mid-'60's, but I saw one on local TV in New York around 1960 by a fellow named Jim Bernotas. Great to find this one from even earlier.

i am amazed that these gentlemen were so accurate with bad balance, nice , thank you for sharing

Just the old rubber balls, not like the big reactive balls around today, had to be accurate and powerful, didn't realize there was a televised 300 from the 50s great to see this.

Incredible match, incredible sportsmen.

Not to take anything away from these legends, but if these lanes aren't dressed for scores, I'm a Dutchman's uncle! Nowadays the machines do it for you, but a skilled lanesman could lay a track into the pocket with a rotary buffer, a piece of old sacking and a spray gun full of oil.

Never ever seen bowling with pin boys in the pit. So interesting. No automatic pin setters here. Love it!

@johnvrabec9747

3 жыл бұрын

My Father in Law was a pin setter back in the day.

@coachbaseball7618

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnvrabec9747 that’s really cool. Bet he has stories to tell. I would loved to had job like that. But gotta dodge the ball and pins. Lol

@coachbaseball7618

3 жыл бұрын

When I was in high school I worked the back in an AMF house. Had to change ball cleaner coverings on ball return while live action. Had to fudge pins. And make sure ball didn’t fall off ball return rails while changing them out. Once ball fell off and rolled back down the lane toward foul line. Uh oh 😳

@johnvrabec9747

3 жыл бұрын

@@coachbaseball7618 He had to cover multiple lanes so he worked his butt off. The bowlers would tip the setters after they were done as a thanks for the hard work.

@coachbaseball7618

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnvrabec9747 oh I’m sure. Prob four adjacent lanes at same time

"boy oh boy, way to go fella, nice shooting..."

No arrows on the lanes!

Wow! This is really cool to see! Thanks for posting it.

Got to love the "automatic" pin setter LOL My Dad was a pinsetter or pin boy.. He said he did such a good job he was promoted to a foul line judge LOL That got him SCREAMED and yelled at!

I wonder if the pin boy had to carry the ball all the way over to the to the ball return from the right lane?

I was 8 years old in 1954.

Eddie Kawolics definitely had the best form.

These lanes were known as slots, during the 50's. Johnny King, Eddie Kawolics and a few others said: a 700 series was "pie".

@RollYourRock

8 жыл бұрын

"Slots"? Really....?? - They applied the oil to the lanes with a spray gun and were throwing rubber bowling balls. These men truly knew how to bowl, not like the your local 230 average guys nowadays, who couldn't crack 170 on this condition with this equipment.

@tomy5868

7 жыл бұрын

threw 300 in 1994 with Brunswick black beauty...rubber on wood lanes. right down the 10 board.

@bobby_c7671

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomy5868 Nice!! I used the Black Beauty as my spare ball. :)

STEVE NAGY 300 GAME 25:19 25:47 26:14

@anandguruji83

4 жыл бұрын

STEVE NAGY 300 GAME 25:19 25:47 26:14

I like to watch Steve Nagy's 300 game on this episode

Whispering Joe Wilson came before Fred Wolfe.

They had "Pin Boys"! I remember my mom would stuff $ in a tennis ball and roll it to the pin boy for a tip! That couldn't have been an easy job...

Pinboys and semi automatic pinsetters

Did you see the way the announcer push Eddie out of the way To get to Steve Nagy

STEVE NAGY 300 GAME 25:18 25:19 25:46 25:47 26:13 26:14

@anandguruji83

4 жыл бұрын

STEVE NAGY 300 GAME 25:18 25:19 25:46 25:47 26:13 26:14

Big bucks

Steve Nagy!!!

I’ll take a re-rack please 😂

The announcer looks like groucho marx

is this `55? At the end the credits say 1954.

@irishpogi

7 жыл бұрын

fixed

It's STEVE NAGY vs EDDIE KAWOLICS lol