Bowling
By Mark Miller
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Mark Miller
Mark Miller (BA, Evangel University) is executive pastor at NewSong Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and he consults for other churches on reaching postmoderns, creativity, and leadership. He is the founder of The Jesus Journey, an experiential storytelling retreat that makes the story of the Bible accessible to postmoderns. He is married to Stacey and has two daughters.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was looking for book on bowling techniques and tactics, not a general book which explains bowling in America.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is very useful in referencing a research paper that I am writing for my college bowling course.
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Bowling - Mark Miller
BOWLING—AMERICA’S INDOOR PASTIME
AT MORETHAN 5,000 years old, bowling may be the world’s oldest sport. With more than 100 million annual global participants, it’s definitely among the most popular.
Nearly every person in the United States from age 3 to 103 has tried bowling at least once in their lives. More than 70 million partake annually. It’s a true lifetime sport that’s passed on from parents to children to grandkids and even great grandkids.
Bowling is different things to different people. To some, it is a hard-fought competitive sport. To others, it’s a relaxing form of recreation. To even more people, it’s a great way to raise money for charity.
Toddlers and other youngsters may be introduced through a birthday party or their parents. Teenagers find the bowling center (or, the bowling alley
to some people) a great place for that first date or to hang out with their friends. Husbands and wives use their biweekly or monthly league sessions as opportunities to spend quality time together. Men and women view their weekly leagues as time to hang out with the boys
or the girls
while fueling a strong need to compete.
You don’t have to be tall, large, or fast to enjoy and succeed at bowling. Your age or physical or mental challenges and limits don’t matter. While not everyone can master it, anyone can enjoy it.
Bowling wasn’t always played indoors like it is today. In fact, until the late 1800s, bowling was strictly an outdoor game. Then, wealthy families who thought bowling was upscale had lanes constructed in their mansions. Later, independent establishments brought the game inside for the masses.
As an indoor activity, it no longer was subject to Mother Nature’s whims. In fact, outdoor conditions often helped drive people to the sport, seeing bowling as a way to escape winter’s blustery cold or summer’s unbearable heat.
Today, bowling is done by families and friends, coworkers, and religious groups. It builds friendship and camaraderie while being fun. And it can bring out the competitive juices in us all.
In bowling, competitors make their shots by themselves, without assistance from other players.
Children of all ages enjoy the fun and competition of bowling.
Competing for their country is one of the biggest honors in bowling.
Some partake in bowling strictly for recreation rather than for competition.
There are four general ways to play the game and sport of bowling: open, league, tournament, and elite.
By far the most popular version of bowling in America is open play.
This consists of a variety of unorganized or organized options where people go to the bowling center on their own.
Unorganized open play can be friends rolling a couple of games on the spur of the moment. It can be when kids go with their parents for the first time or when a couple goes bowling on a date. It also can be when someone simply wants to practice either alone, with a coach, or with others.
Organized open play features activities such as birthday parties, religious or company outings, glow bowling,
or rock ’n’ roll bowling.
League bowling has been the backbone of the sport since the American Bowling Congress started in 1895. People form groups, called teams,
of up to five and compete on a regular basis (weekly, biweekly, monthly) for a specific period of time (weeks, months, years). Leagues set some form of competitive schedule where champions are crowned at the end of the season. Most of these groups come under the auspices of the United States Bowling Congress, which offers bowlers a variety of services to make their leagues fun and