World Tournament Highest Most Shoes by Year
  Boy's Championship Complete Tournament Most Most    
  50 Point Games Started 1924-1981 Ringers Shoes Avg. World
  Year Name Placed Games By Year Pitched Percent Location
  1981 Kirk Bartnik, WI 6th. 7-4 750 964 77.80% Genola, MN (*)
  1980 Tim Barnette, VA 7th. 5-6 618 874 70.71% Huntsville, AL
  1979 Mark Dyson, NC 1st. 11-2 708 956 74.06% Statesville, NC
  1978 Rick Howe, MA 5th. 7-4 725 960 75.52% Des Moines, IA
  1977 Randy Hymen, OH 5th. 4-3 481 638 75.39% Greenville, OH
  1976 Walter Ray Williams Jr., CA 2nd 6-3 927 1070 86.64% Bristol, PA
  1975 Jeff Williams, CA 3rd. 4-3 673 796 84.55% Lafayette, IN ( + )
  1974 Doug Kienia, CA 1st. 7-0 578 712 81.18% Keene, NH
  1973 Dale Scaffers, AL-CAN 3rd. 5-2 423 560 75.54% Eureka, CA
  1972 Alvin Vinsant, CA 3rd. 4-3 533 648 82.25% Greenville, OH
  1971 Mike Pateneaude, ME 5th. 3-4 265 444 59.68% Middlesex, NJ
  1970 Walter Ray Williams Jr., CA 2nd. 6-1 507 644 78.73% South Gate, CA
  1969 Paul Day, IN 4th. 5-2 454 600 75.67% Erie, PA
  1968 Billy LaBrosse, MN 6th. 5-2 350 530 66.04% Keene, NH
  1967 Billy LaBrosse, MN 2nd. 6-1 331 514 64.40% Fargo, ND
  1966 Dennis Hohl, ON-CAN 5th. 3-4 258 482 53.53% Murray, UT
  1965 Delbert Lykins, IN 7th. 1-6 276 516 53.49% Keene, NH
  1964 Dennis Riffle, OH 3rd. 5-2 312 494 63.16% Greenville, OH
  1963 Randy Bish, CA 8th. 2-7 122 564 21.63% South Gate, CA
  1962 Jerry Tomlinson, IN 3rd. 4-3 200 452 44.25% Greenville, OH
  1961 Wayne Cummings, IN 8th. 1-6 157 458 34.28% Muncie, IN 
  1960 No Records           Muncie, IN 
  1959 Sherman Harmer. UT 8th. 0-7 52 426 12.21% Murray, UT
  1958 No records from 1952-1958            
  1951 Carl Benvgnu, UT 12th. 15-0 60 554 10.83% Murray, UT
    No records available from 1924-1950            
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    (#) Overhead Cover          
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