Manhattan Rubber Bowling Ball

Manhattan rubber made some of the better rubber balls back in the day.

Manhattan rubber bowling ball. If you happen to bowl on wood lanes you may like this thing. Vintage manhattan rubber multi color paisley swirl bowling ball 14 lbs. Manhatten rubber is the name of the company not the compostion of the ball. The low friction surface coverstock on a rubber ball actually produced slightly more surface friction than does polyester plastic bowling balls and was similar to the low grade original urethane coverstocks but not as versatile as urethane material coverstocks thus the end of the rubber ball era entirely.

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This one is of course used with. These were very popular in the 1950s and 60s. More 4 vintage blue swirl 1971 manhattan rubber candlepin bowling balls 2 5 ounce. We were not to knowledgable about ball surfaces then just the very name of manhatten rubber carried it through.

Although the industry provided successful rubber bowling balls well into the 1970 s such as the johnny petraglia lt 48 ball made by brunswick essentially from about 1971 forward the polyester bowling balls were predominantly used. Vintage bowling ball manhattan rubber black with case collectable fv3123 s l. Rubber customs services and international tracking provided vintage johnny petraglia brunswick lt 48 bowling ball 14 25 pound b003. I think they went out of the bowling ball bussiness in the late 1980 s.

Got one to sell. Manhattan rubber bowling ball with additional accessories. I rolled some really good games with a rubber dick weber powerball in recent years. Cosom rubberized bowling ball 3 lbs green 78 56.

That was in the very early 60 s. At the time it was the ball to have. Plastic balls or more properly polyester coverstock bowling balls replaced the rubber ball in the 1970 s in popularity and was the dominant ball during the decade. Rare manhattan rubber promaker green rubber 15lb bowling ball pro maker vintage c 135 63 top rated seller from united states coverstock.

Rubber balls were used predominantly leading into the 1970 s. A mottled blue black manhatten ball was my very first bowling ball that i had. It plays nicely on short oil dry backends.