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187 - The History of Bowling in America

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Pin Boys of Bowling

The first stars of bowling were borns fasio bowled for stros. Starting the 19 thirties, beer leagues began dominate bowling. Bowlers were recruited by beer companies and then they played against each other in tournaments. In 19 36 an engineer named fred schmidt took a bicycle chain, flower pots and different machine parts and created the first automatic pin spotter. His inventor was manufactured by the american machine and foundry company in 19 forty six pin boys had been replaced. It's the same thing we have happening with coal. I don't think you know we're getting rid of the pin boys. Because we have now a pinre setters using less coal. We

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