Irv Weiner introduced "3D" Rabbits in the fifties, and Nielsen Magic offered George Murray's Professional 3-D Multiplying Rabbits in 1989. In 1982, Daryl's Peter Rabbit Hits the Big Time created a resurgence of interest in the Sponge Bunnies.
He started selling his trick Peter Rabbit Goes to Town! in the mid-forties, and it was published in J. Nelson, known for his work as a mentalist, invented the Sponge Rabbits. Roy Benson also used sponge balls for his Benson Bowl routine, as adapted and popularized by Don Alan. Noted specialists in sponge ball magic are Audley Walsh, Frank Garcia, and Frances Ireland Marshall. Lybarger's work." Īl Stevenson devised a process for making perfect spheres from the polyurethane foam and later Albert Goshman improved the process. In the early forties, Al Cohn, owner and operator of The Magic Center in New York City, became known as the "Sponge Ball King." He claimed to have invented Sponge Balls and sold his Famous "Streamlined" Sponge Ball Routine starting in 1944, He was often cited as the inventor, but Milbourne Christopher wrote in 1952 in his column in The Linking Ring that Lybarger deserved credit for the trick. Also in 1926, Joe Berg introduced his Cups and Balls Routine wherein he made use of balls made of sponge instead of the usual cork. Lybarger in 1925, and publishing the following year in The Linking Ring. The first known trick with sponge balls was sold by Jesse J.
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