Fun Boston bowling fact

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This PDF file stored on the National Parks Service site mentions a curious find from the “Big Dig” project: a wooden bowling ball, dating to the 1600s, which is thought to be the oldest example of a bowling ball found in North America, though this ball was used for lawn bowling rather than any game with pins as scoring objects.

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I started "The Tenth Board" to chronicle my experiences during the road back to league bowling after my heel fractures in 1999 (it took me 7 years before I started thinking seriously about it). I now use the blog as a combination of a personal bowling journal and a news site mostly about Westgate Lanes (Brockton, MA) and its bowlers.

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