The Baker Format, also known as the Bakers Formal or Baker System, is a method of scoring competition bowling which places emphasis on the team effort rather than the accomplishments of the …
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Ed Townsend
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4/29/22
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Behind the scenes of the great game of bowling I have had the opportunity to interview many local amateur league bowlers who expressed to me that they were going to bowl with the Professional …
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Ed Townsend
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4/22/22
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The longest standing scoring record at the United States Bowling Congress Open Championships fell Saturday night April 9 as Mento Produce of Baldwinsville, NY, posted a 10,444 Team All-Events total …
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Ed Townsend
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4/15/22
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The legendary 58-year-old PBA Hall of Famer Norm Duke almost pulled off another big championship Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, but lost a thriller 219-216 to 25-year-old two-handed bowler Anthony …
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Ed Townsend
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4/8/22
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The 69th edition of the Fox Bowling Center Annual Handicap Tournament will get underway tomorrow, April 2, with two shifts at noon and 4 p.m.
This handicap tournament features men, women and mixed …
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Ed Townsend
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4/1/22
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Unless you go bowling on a regular basis, you probably don't know what a bucket is, even if you yourself have faced one.
In order to understand what a bucket is, it helps to know a little about …
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Ed Townsend
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3/25/22
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The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Open Championships, absent from the lanes last year during the pandemic, is underway in Las Vegas where tens of thousands of bowlers will compete in the …
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Ed Townsend
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3/18/22
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Our series of bowling techniques has included information about two-handed bowling so this week let's add the topic of bowling without a thumb.
Bowling without a thumb is a way for bowlers to …
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Ed Townsend
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3/11/22
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Just like the name, two-handed bowling refers to bowling with two hands.
While attending the U.S. Open in New Jersey a number of years ago, I met and talked to a young Australian bowler named …
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Ed Townsend
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3/4/22
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Bowling lane patterns and the PBA Lane Maintenance program exist to balance the many complicated variables associated with cleaning and conditioning lanes during the multi-day PBA …
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Ed Townsend
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2/25/22
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Aggressive bowlers all over the world each year set their sights every couple of years on the National Bowling Stadium, a 363,000 square-foot ten-pin bowling stadium in Reno, Nevada.
Nicknamed the …
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Ed Townsend
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2/18/22
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The 2022 tour U.S. Open bowling championships produced many ups and downs last Sunday evening at the Indianapolis Woodland Bowl and steady bowling and clutch scoring by Anthony Simonsen paid off (to …
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Ed Townsend
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2/11/22
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