Wade started his ball back in 1975, when he worked at a downtown bank. He noticed a security guard's rubber-band ball and asked how it was made. Figure it out yourself, the guard replied rudely.

Eventually, he wrote to companies that manufacture giant rubber bands for physical therapy, and they sent him free shipments. The ball grew and grew. Neighborhood kids climbed on top of it.

From wood to feathers to tree sap, rubber bands, cork or compressed air — today's little white spheroid has had an interesting evolution. Back in the mist of history, the game of golf was played ...

The ball now stands 5 feet tall, with a 14-foot waist, and weighs an estimated 2,700 pounds. The record was set last year, at 2,524 pounds, by Tony Evans of Swansea, Wales.

I am quite adept at the art of the rubber band ball. Many years ago, I managed to secure myself a job at Gillette which was willing to pay me for doing nothing but create for them a massive rubber ...

Steve Milton, through concentration and perseverance, has created a 3,300-pound ball comprised of rubber bands. His creation measures almost 5 feet tall and takes up half his two-car garage.

The world's largest rubber band ball stands six feet seven inches tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds ...

By July 2004, the ball had reached his waist. "He'd be sitting there, watching TV with his gloves on, with a huge pile of rubber bands at his feet, tying them together for hours," remembers his friend ...

Joel Waul has been twisting, wrapping and stretching rubber bands for years in the hope of building a record-breaking ball. So far, Waul's efforts have created a 6-foot-tall sphere.

EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing ...

Steve Milton of Eugene, Ore., stands next to his 4,594-pound rubber band ball that was certified as the world's largest by Guinness World Records officials during a weigh-in Tuesday in Chicago.