POWER OF ATTORNEY

POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints. David A. Westerlund, Charles E. Baker
and Robert W. McClelland, and each of them acting or signing
alone, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned,
in the under signeds capacity as a director of Ball
Corporation the Company), any and all reports required
to be filed by the undersigned in accordance with Section
16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the
rules thereunder;

(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf
of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable
to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 or other
required report and timely file such report with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or
similar authority; and

(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in
connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such
attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of,
or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf
of the undersigned, pursuant to this Power of Attorney, shall be
in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such
attorney-in-fact may approve in his discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, and proper to be done in
the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as
fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact,
or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights
and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that
no such attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request
of the undersigned, is hereby assuming, nor is the Company hereby
assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with
Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until
the undersigned is no longer required to file reports under
Section 16 with respect to the undersigneds holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this
Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 26th day of July 2006.


Signature:/s/Robert W. Alspaugh

Printed Name: Robert W. Alspaugh