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How bowling has become a 'second home' for Dodgers' Mookie Betts in the offseason

Pro baseball player Mookie Betts, left, and pro bowler Tommy Jones attend the State Farm Chris Paul PBA Celebrity Invitational held at Lucky Strike Lanes at L.A.

LOS ANGELES — When event organizers were reviewing the list of participants for last week's annual U.S. Open of bowling, one name caught their attention.

No one from the United States Bowling Congress, which runs the national championship, had expected to see it. But no one in the bowling world, which converged on the Indiana-based event that serves as one of five majors in the sport, was surprised by the entrant either.

Mookie Betts — Encino, CA.

"He entered just like any of our other members would have," said Chad Murphy, executive director of the USBC. "We didn't really see

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