Amerigo Vespucci Lodge #160 The History of Bocce Throwing balls toward a target is "probably the oldest game known to mankind," says Ken Dothie, former head of the United States Bocce Federation. As early as 5000 B.C. the Egyptians played a form of bocce with polished rocks. Graphic representations of figures tossing a ball or polished stone have been recorded as early as 5200 B.C. While bocce today looks quite different from its early predecessors, the unbroken thread of bocce's lineage is ...