Form: S-8

Initial registration statement for securities to be offered to employees pursuant to employee benefit plans

December 28, 2000

Documents

CONSENT OF PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS

Published on December 28, 2000


Exhibit 23.1
December 28, 2000



CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS


We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration
Statement on Form S-8 of Ball Corporation of our report dated January 26, 2000,
relating to the financial statements included in Ball Corporation's Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1999.




/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP
DENVER, COLORADO
DECEMBER 28, 2000