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/Home/Sports/Sports/History of Sports/Bowling Welcome to bowling-ez.com Votes:0 Click here to enter . Read More Go to Site Bowling Issue: History. Votes:0 [ home | archive | magazine | x6 ] party poker An All-Too-Long History of Bowling. by Scott Berk & Mark Simple 5200 B.C. A primitive form of bowling is practiced by the ancient Egyptians. 200-300 A.D. German monks introduce bowling to the masses as a religious ritual. Martin Luther standardizes the game, called "kegels," to nine pins. 1300's Bowling greens appear in homes of wealthy European royalty. 1455 The first enclosed bowling center is built in London. 1465 Edward IV passes edict forbidding "hustling of stones" and other bowling-like sports. 1555 Bowling centers closed because they were being used as places of "unlawful assembly." 1611 Captain James Smith return to the colony in Jamestown, Virginia to find the colonists starving, but still happily bowling. The sport is quickly declar Read More Go to Site HickokSports.com - History - Duckpin Bowling Votes:0 Sports History Alpha Index Index by Sport History Bits Forum Links Search Duckpin Bowling Table of Contents History Other Resources History Ten-pin bowling used to be strictly a winter sport. Most alleys closed down for the summer, but a few of them remained open so that bowlers could practice with small balls, about 6 inches in diameter. They usually played odd games called "back five," using just the 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 pins, and "cocked hat," which used only the 1, 7, and 10. In 1900, summer bowlers at the Diamond Alleys in Baltimore suggested it might be interesting to trim down the standard pins to match the size of the ball. Manager John Van Sant liked the idea. He had a wood turner do the job and many of his customers enjoyed the new bowling game. At first, the ru Read More Go to Site

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