A hollow bearing ball formed from a relatively resilient steel by initially stamping a round blank from a strip, drawing the blank, and forging and flowing the drawn blank of metal to subsequently form a substantially hemispherical portion of a hollow bearing ball. The hemispherical portions are fed into a hopper which serve to place them in opposed concave relationship after which they are interposed within and between two electrode welding seats which hold the hemispherical portions under pressure and weld them to form a hollow bearing ball.