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Join us for a little get together at the Jackson Family Fun Center
in Jackson on Saturday, February 3rd at 6pm. We will meet in the
dining area and have a nice greasy lane burger, or whatever alley
food you would like, and then plan to bowl a few games and just
spend some time talking and catching up with each other. Hope you
can make it!!
Please post here if you will be attending so I will know if
we need to reserve lanes.
Bowling is a game in which players attempt to score points by
rolling a ball along a flat surface in an attempt to knock down
objects called pins. There are many forms of bowling, with the
earliest dating back to ancient Egypt. In the US the best known
form of bowling is probably the North American game of ten-pin
bowling. This form, in both amateur and professional versions, is
played around the world, making it one of the largest participation
activities worldwide. Historians have discovered forms of bowling
as early as 3200 BC in Egypt, though some argue that it originated
later in Germany around 300 AD. The first written reference to
bowling was in reference to King Edward III of England banning his
troops from playing the game in the 14th century. European settlers
brought forms of the game to the United States in the colonial era.
The first standardized rules were established in New York City, on
September 9, 1895. In that year, the American Bowling Congress
(ABC) was formed. The female equivalent, the Women's International
Bowling Congress (WIBC) was founded later, in 1917. Later, the
Young American Bowling Alliance (YABA) became the sanctioning body
for junior bowling. Originally, pinspotters manually set up pins.
However, in 1952, the first automatic pinsetters were commercially
produced, greatly speeding up the game and allowing its popularity
to blossom. Since bowling was an indoor sport without extreme
movements, several early television shows featured bowling,
including "Championship Bowling", "Make That Spare", "Bowling For
Dollars", and "Celebrity Bowling". The Professional Bowlers
Association (PBA) was founded in 1958 by Eddie Elias. While the
first season only featured three events, the tour blossomed,
especially after joining the ABC's Saturday afternoon time slot in
1961. Through the years, professional bowling on ABC typically
outdrew college basketball, even in its final days on the network
in the late 1990s. The PBA continues to showcase the best bowlers
in the world, with telecasts currently on ESPN. In 2005, the ABC,
WIBC, and YABA merged to form the United States Bowling Congress
(USBC) to serve as the single sanctioning body for all American
bowling.
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