You've never seen one of these before?  This is what the early modern game was all about - a thumbhole, one fingerhole in a round chunk of wood.  I remember when I first started the game we had an alley in town that still had pinboys, not machines.  There were a couple of these balls still on the racks.
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"I do desire that we may be better strangers."  Willie the Shake, As You Like it(III,ii)
"aroyskrikn zoln dir di oygn fun kop"

Lol, imagine if  you showed up for your league with one of these...
Digs
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Never argue with an idiot....They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience!  

not if you were anchor.
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"Strikes show them you know the game. Spares show them you can play the game."

When you bowl a 300, then you have a little sense of what it is like to be Jesus Christ.

A wise man knows when he is beat, it's time you RECOGNIZE Talent!!!