Bowling Info 101

By Jim Newell

More than 50 million Americans participated in the sport of bowling at least once last year. About 4 million participate in a weekly league each year. While these figures are not as high as they were in the bowling peak of the 1960’s and 70’s it is easy to see that bowling is still a wildly popular sport. (more…)

By Jim Newell

Bowling balls are made of hard smooth materials such as hard rubber, polyester, urethane and more recently reactive resin, are allowed to weigh up to 16 pounds, with no minimum weight, with a circumference of between 26.7 and 27 inches, and a diameter of 8.5 inches. An item this size would be rather hard to hold on to, let alone grip and throw if it were not for the holes that are allowed to be in the ball. (more…)