Bowler's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Bowling
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Bowler's Start-Up - Doug Werner
Bowler’s Start-Up
A Beginner’s Guide to Bowling
By Doug Werner
Tracks Publishing
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Chula Vista, CA 91910
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.
Copyright© 1995 by Doug Werner
Publisher’s Cataloging in Publication
(Prepared By Quality Books, Inc.)
Werner, Doug, 1950-
Bowler’s start-up : a beginner’s guide to bowling / Doug Werner.
p. cm.–(Start-up sports)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preassigned LCCN: 95-61506.
ISBN: 1-884654-05-3.
1. Bowling. I. Title. II. Series.
GV903.W47 1995
794.6
QBI95-20430
Dedicated to
Kathleen Wheeler
Acknowledgments
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American Bowling Congress
Mark Miller
Bowling, Inc.
R Lance Elliott
Bowling Hall of Fame
John Dalzell
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Preface
Bowling is the Great American Recreation. It’s woven into the fabric of most of our lives. It’s almost pointless to talk numbers because nearly everyone has bowled at one time or another. It’s like asking folks if they’ve ever played catch. Or gone to the movies. Or ridden a bike.
And like catch, or the movies, or bicycle riding, we sometimes take bowling for granted. Not because it’s forgettable, but because it’s so pervasive. It’s everywhere. It’s always been around and probably always will be.
That’s because bowling is a game for everybody. It’s a game everybody can get up and do!
Anyway, enjoy the book. It’s designed to be j-u-s-t informative enough to get you going. And entertaining enough for you to finish.
Then get outta here and bowl a few.
Bowl Dog
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Intro - Bowler Nation
1 - Garb &Gear
2 - the Game
3 - Scoring
4 - Courtesy
5 - Safety
6 - Shadow Bowling
7 - Basic Bowling
8 - What’s Your Ball Doing?
9 - Spare None!
10 - Leftys
11 - Final Frame
12 - Bowlers TimeLine
Glossary
Resources
Bibliography
Old time alleys were sorta like saloons. Dark, dank and somewhat suspect. Women were not welcome, but the persistent ones were allowed to bowl behind curtains. (Photo courtesy of the Bowling Hall of fame and Museum.)
Intro
Bowler Nation
They used to call them bowling alleys.
That name was officially discarded years ago when the first bowling centers were built in the 50s.The alley word wouldn’t do to describe these shiny new edifices springing up across the land. Bowling wanted to reach out to mid-century America and leave its old time, saloon image behind.
And centers did just that. Big time.The gleaming, automated bowling center was the kind of place that really wowed ‘em all. They attracted millions to the sport. Everybody became a bowler. Bowling became mainstream and a mainstay in American culture.
Today, the best centers are like little Disneylands. Replete with restaurants, lounges, child care, billiard tables, amusement/arcade areas, video game rooms, banquet facilities, even volleyball courts.The marketing people like to call them bowling-based family recreational centers.
But whatever the name, it’s still the game that draws the crowds. Every town that really is a town has a place to bowl. In this country bowling is something of a rite of passage that doesn’t ever end. Because people can bowl from age 3 to 103. It’s truly a lifetime sport.
Rainbowl coalition
In bowling centers people play. Everyone is dressed down and feeling up. It’s sorta like a day at the ball park except the entire crowd is participating in the game. The air is filled with the sound of crashing pins and a hundred happy voices (well, mostly happy). Because it’s alotta fun knocking down the pins with your pals.
And the people! All kinds of people. Old ones, young ones, fat ones, skinny ones, male ones, female ones, black