Keeping the Ball Rolling

Martin Handley looks back at the rise, fall and revival of tenpin bowling

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Tenpin bowling – is it a sport, is it a pastime, or is it plain that it’s both? Pictorial evidence from around 5200BC suggests ancient Egyptians were not averse to hurling balls at rudimentary skittles. The Greeks and the Romans followed suit. In...

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