The Bowling Chronicles: Collected Writings of Dr. Jake by J.R. Schmidt

By J.R. Schmidt

thousands of individuals bowl but few understand a lot approximately bowling’s wealthy heritage. For greater than 25 years, J.R. “Dr. Jake” Schmidt has been recounting that heritage in Bowlers magazine International with power and aspect. This choice of ninety of his vintage articles provides photographs of Dick Weber, Don Carter, Marion Ladewig and different tenpin immortals. nice suits and tournaments are recalled, besides little-known and forgotten stories—the bowling ball that went world wide, the three hundred video game that took every week to accomplish, the symphony live performance that featured a bowler rolling opposed to pins on degree, the touring hustler who handed himself off as a German nobleman, the baseball corridor of Famer who gained a countrywide bowling championship, and lots more and plenty more.

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