I just learned this on an episode of Perry Mason
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He was actually posting his bowling scores on the church door and the back of the sheet had some goofy ideas he wrote down when he was drunk and that's why everyone remembers him for, not the three in a row 300 games he just played.
I wasn’t even aware that bowling had been around that long.
share"The earliest known forms of bowling date back to ancient Egypt" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling
Pizza, Beer, and Bowling night would come much later.
I always thought that bowling had originated professionally in somewhere like Russia or Georgia (the one in Eurasia). Neat info.
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That's entirely possible. Bowling was around back in that time period, though at that time it was very crude, and called "Ninepins." They used wooden pins and either a wooden ball, or a leather one stuffed with rags.
shareBy the 1730’s the English had put in an outdoor bowling green in NYC close to Wall Street. A cute little shady park is still there.
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