On trips, he faithfully carried it with him, packing it in his wife's bowling ball bag
 
Eric Shackle (shack)  (Copyright 2007) 
Published 2007-08-20 13:57 (KST)    
 
A tomato weighing 2.2 pounds (about one kilogram) was judged the largest and ugliest at the four-day Pittston Tomato Festival in Pennsylvania last week. That was less than one-third the world record weight, set in Oklahoma 21 years ago.

Instead of celebrating a new world record, this year's festival highlight was a pitched battle using ripe tomatoes as ammunition.