Duckpin Bowling
Have you ever heard of Duckpin Bowling? I never had until a friend was telling me that she and her family played. There is only one place in Indiana where you can play and that is at Fountain Square.
As described at Fountain Square’s website:
the game was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1900 and it was one of Babe Ruth’s favorite games! Ten-pin bowling used to strictly be a winter sport and most alleys closed during the summer except for a few that remained open to play odd bowling games using the smaller balls. Summer bowlers suggested that it might be interesting to trim the standard pins down to match the size of the small ball. Because it was much harder to get strikes and spares, the rules were changed to allow three bowls on each turn but only counted as a score of ten if all ten pins were knocked down with the third ball. Duckpins became so popular that during the 1920′s duckpin bowling spread along the east coast, from New England to Georgia. Today duckpin houses are still found only in the eastern states with the exception of our two locations here in Fountain Square, the only authentic Duckpin Bowling in the Midwest!
We might have to try this after the Butler ballgame this afternoon.
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January 1st, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I used to have a set of plastic pins and balls that was called duck pins but didn’t know there are actually establishments where you can go to play. We went by normal bowling rules though. That was my first introduction to bowling. I’ll mention this in my Friday Things We Learned This Week post with a link back here.
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January 1st, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Never heard about it. But it looks nice.
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January 1st, 2011 at 6:51 pm
i had never heard of it before either but it sounds like fun. i want to try it.
and happy new year karen
January 3rd, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for stopping by the blog and commenting! I hear you on the no buying more fabric thing! I too get so into new materials that I forget about all of my stuff sitting around waiting to be used! Bad habit to get into-lol.
I actually happen to live in Baltimore, and have bowled a few times at the first duckpin bowling alley. It’s quite a challenge:)