Rex Trulove
Bowling is a popular sport in the US for both amateurs and professionals. It has also been around in this country for a long time. However, there is a little fact that most people in the US aren’t aware of, even if they have or do bowl.
When bowling first reached the US, it was played with nine bowling pins and was aptly called “ninepin”. It was quite popular, even then.
However, the governments of New York and Connecticut decided to ban ninepin. There were a lot of bowling enthusiasts in New York and Connecticut, so a very simple way was found to circumvent the law. They just added an additional pin, to give us in the United States the familiar bowling game that is popular today; 10-pin bowling. Ninepin was banned, but 10-pin wasn’t.
Sometimes it is far better to come up with an easy and simple solution for a problem rather than spending a lot of time complaining about it or fighting it. Complaining seldom corrects anything.
My son was big into bowling when he was little.
My son still does love bowling and he is 38. lol
Hey, I did this in reverse, kind of! I wrote down everything I new about bowling and then read it. Of course I learned new things.
In my youth, I used to bowl and shoot pool. I haven’t done either in a long time. My son bowls, though, and he’s a lot better at it than I was. His average is something like 236. There are pros that don’t have that kind of average.
I suppose it shows how old I am but my grandfather used to take me to a bowling alley that had a manual pinsetter. A person, that set the pins each time. Love this post Rex!
Believe it or not, there are still bowling alleys in the US that are manual pinset.
There is one near my house in Maryland. It used to shock me, it changes the game of bowling a little when you have manual pinsetters. The machines always set the pings the exact same way every time.
That is quite true and it makes the game a lot more challenging. It takes a lot more skill to bowl a good game. Each frame also takes longer to bowl.
Bowling used to be a blast with my grandfather. We would bowl, relax, have lunch and well just have fun.
I still love to bowl, but it isn’t the same now as it was.