Calling bowling experts ... is this a 300 or not?

[maumann]

So are we going to go down the roster of what types of bowling balls we all own now?

Mine's sitting in the front yard garden as an ornament because it's worth nothing.

 

[qtlaw]

They had an afterschool bowling league when I was in 5th and 6th grade (mid 70s when bowling was huge); fantastic time, bus picked us up at school and took us to the bowling alley, we got fries and cokes and then bowled three games/matches with our bowling team shirts and you earned patches (150, 200, etc.) Highlight as a 6th grader (well my life), got in the zone one time and bowled a 238 and a 600 series (3 gms). Although went over 200 again, never went over 600 again. I've always loved bowling.

 

[HanSenSE]

In my days of pounding out bowling agate, I'm reminded the manager of the local lanes didn't want a fuss made over a 300 game bowled on a "rock and bowl" night, since it was outside regular league play.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Mine's sitting in the front yard garden as an ornament because it's worth nothing.

I won mine at the league banquet when I was in junior leagues in seventh grade. I've thought about buying a new one but I just don't see me getting worth out of it.

 

[Bud_Bundy]

I took a bowling class for PE as a college freshman and the instructor was bowling a game so people who didn't know would learn how to keep score. All he did was throw 12 straight strikes. Aced that one!

 

[qtlaw]

Gotta say when I got my first bowling ball (9lbs!), bag and shoes I felt like I was right there with Mark Roth.

 

[Splendid Splinter]

 

[playthrough]

My favorite bowling story ... A woman called our small-town sports desk one day angry about her league bowling trophy, the plate on it fell off to reveal "runner-up 1983 Pensacola Open" or something -- the former pro that owned the local lanes was such a cheap biscuit that he took his old trophies and re-plated them for league winners. The publisher wasn't a big fan of the pro and insisted on a story, so I had to go ask the pro why he did it. He was nice enough, just didn't think it was a big deal, said he'd buy the poor old lady a new trophy. We splashed it across the top of the sports section like it was a major scandal. Which it was in the old ladies league.

 

[Chef2]

So are we going to go down the roster of what types of bowling balls we all own now?

Have a blue Zone bowling ball from 1998.

 

[hondo]

So are we going to go down the roster of what types of bowling balls we all own now?

And if we did, what would be the problem?

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Put Hondo down for a Columbia 300.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]