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PBA Midwest Region manager Rich Weber heading to a well-deserved retirement; Bobby Jakel named successor

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Monday, November 26, 2018 10:00 am
PBA Midwest Region manager Rich Weber heading to a well-deserved retirement; Bobby Jakel named successor
Rich Weber is second from the left in this picture of PBA Regional and Senior Tour managers. Photo by Pro Bowlers Association.
If there is anyone who deserves to enjoy retirement it is Rich Weber, as he has been dealing with professional bowlers for more than three decades. And I am speaking as one of those bowlers who has been an occasional headache for him for all of those three decades — I started as a PBA Regional competitor right at the time Rich, his legendary dad Dick, and brother John started running the Midwest PBA in the mid-1980s. Rich, the oldest of Dick’s four children, turned 68 on Oct. 2...