I think Goshman puts out a package of 25 red balls. Various dealers have them or can get them for you.

I know that he used to. Steve Dacri's baby bunnies in 3D are excellent for this as well.

Steven Bargatze does a wonderful routine that ends with bunches of balls in the spectator's hand. He uses a fishing net, and does a 5 min comedy routine that kills.

One of the few routines that I would love to steal if I could ever bring myself that low.

Scott

I also wanted to mention Stephen Bargatze's routine also (I believe it is in his lecture notes). It is funny, however, he embarrasses the kids a little. However, it always gets a great reaction when all those balls jump out of the kid's hand into the fishing net.

Gene

Stephen said, in his lecture, that he learned the routine from Dick Stoner. But, since I perform the Stoner routine, I can tell you that Stephen made some changes.

I believe Kenton Knepper has a sponge ball routine that ends with many balls in the spectators hand on one of his tapes.

The set of Stephen's lecture notes that I have doesn't have the sponge ball routine in it. He did teach it at a lecture I attended at Winter Carnival of Magic in 2005.

Alan, is Dick Stoner's routine anywhere in print? I went to his website but couldn't determine where it is. Any help would be appreciated.

Scott Compton

In case someone comes back to this thread..

Scott:
Dick Stoner's routine is called "Sponge Ball Surprise", and is in his "More I Spell Magic FUN"
If I remember right, he even refers to Bargatze, not as the source, but as part of his advertisement.
I'm not sure, but it seems Stephen's main addition is some silly "by-play" of guess which had the ball is in.
Much of Stephen's presentation is signature Stephen Bargatze stuff - very entertaining.

John