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It's a 'baseless claim' to say illegal PURPLE HAMMERs are being used on the PBA Tour, PBA Commissioner Tom Clark says

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Monday, February 10, 2020 9:00 am
It's a 'baseless claim' to say illegal PURPLE HAMMERs are being used on the PBA Tour, PBA Commissioner Tom Clark says
A PURPLE HAMMER that belongs to non-PBA member Chris Pounders. Photo by Jeff Richgels.
(Note: Tom Clark's characterization in this story was what was known at the time, before it became known via former EBI employee Mitch Beasley, my reporting, and USBC investigation that PURPLE HAMMERs were unintentionally made illegally soft in 2016 and 2017.) Are illegally soft PURPLE HAMMERs being used on the PBA Tour? It’s an issue seemingly everyone is talking about, but no player will talk about on the record. At least that was the case until Sean Rash broke the public silence...