Movin’ On Up, finally

 

1. I’m guessing that you’re bowling tenpin, and not our regional anomolies candlepin or duckpin?

   Posted by mojoe       08/11/2009  at  09:37 PM  



2. Tenpin it is, American Standard.

   I’d like to try that candlepin game someday. As I understand it, you get 3 balls per frame, each ball is about the size of a bocce ball or a softball, and if you need to use all 3 balls to knock the pins down then your score for that frame is just a 10, no strike or spare bonus. And the pins are more like dowels than typical bowling pins. Very different.

   I don’t know anything about duckpin.

   Posted by Drew458       08/12/2009  at  09:56 AM  



3. Yessir, American standard it is. Yet I’ve bowled perhaps 10 frames of tenpin in my 46 years. I bowled in a candlepin league as a kid, though it’s been a few years now.

   You’ve got the general idea of candlepin. Funny you mention bocce (I played with my grandfather and other grouchy old Italian guys).  I wonder if the candlepin variant might have come from the large Italian population that settled around Boston? I’ll have to look into that.

   Duckpin is played in an even more narrow geographical area. Southeast Mass. and Northern Rhode Island. The ball is probably halfway between the other two, but not drilled. And the pins are smaller than tenpin, but retain the more “full-figured” look of tenpins.

   Sadly, both are losing popularity with the younger crowd. More fun playing Nintendo Bowling I guess.

   Posted by mojoe       08/12/2009  at  07:46 PM  



4. "I think I’ll put my balls out in the car tomorrow, to toast up in the sun and burn the oil out of them.”
   I think you’ve been washing way to many windows with that solvent Drew.Or maybe your just tired.Good thing we dont have many trolls on this site.

   Posted by Rich K       08/13/2009  at  03:27 AM  

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