text: i throw a backup ball while bowling.  i am starting to look for a new bowling ball.  what would you recommend? i am not looking to change my delivery.  i just a 12 pound ball with a little hook. it's really impossible to recommend a bowling ball without seeing you bowl (for instance, what's your typical ball speed?).  the best answer is to visit your local pro shop, tell them that you throw a back up ball, and that you're not interested in being trained out of it, but you'd like a new ball.  depending on where you bowl, and how the lanes are oiled, there might be something that the pro shop guy can recommend over the others.  as for a simple recommendation, any entry level resin ball (the tornado series from ebonite; storm, brunswick, columbia  each make their own) will give you a simple hook--not a monster hook.