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Issue: 1976 March - Page 5

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Strange, isn't it, how you can talk to someone week after week, meet him at conventions
and meetings over the years, and yet really know very little about him. So many have met
Paul Charles Calamari, Salesmanager for Bally Manufacturing Corp., Chicago, U.S.A. But
how many know that Paul goes back to almost the founding of Bally. Also that Paul was
quite a baseball player as well as a baseball coach, in fact, a sparkling star of the
Bally team in the old Chicago industrial league. Paul was also Sally's top Service School
Engineer for many years, traveling the good old U.S.A. to show operators and mechanics
the how and why of such game as "Bally Champion" . Remember that winner?
Above on the left, that's handsome Paul with his two sons. On his right, Paul Calamari,
Jr., and on his left, Bob Calamari. (They're both a wee bit older than this picture -
you can bet your last 2-bi ts. ) On the right - that's the late ltay T. Moloney, founder of
Bally in '31, congratulating Paul Calamari for bringing the soft ball championship to
Bally Manufacturing Company. That's Bert Perkins proudly holding the trophy. Tho Paul
Calamari says he doesn't feel a day older, all that can be said is, "Those were the
days."
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