Thomas Harvey stared straight ahead for a moment, then took a few strides, cocked his arm back and, with a swift underarm motion, heaved a round, three-pound missile down the lane with all his might.

Depending on where you live, you may have different images that come to mind when someone says, "Let's go bowling!" For most Americans it's Big Lebowski-style bowling (officially known as ten-pin) ...

In 1966, 9-year-old Rich Dunnack and his friends would ride their bikes down the street to the skeleton of the new bowling alley and spend the day there, launching their bikes off jumps they made and ...

HALFWAY — On a recent Tuesday night, Southside Bowl in Halfway was buzzing with activity. On lane 13, Sean Crist of Hagerstown picked up a duckpin ball and pulled it up toward his face as he stared ...

DAVIE — The fear of every tenpin bowler is to roll a ball right down the middle and leave a 7-10 split. But that’s nothing compared to duckpins. A duckpin ball rolled through the middle will leave the ...

There is a lot of mystery in the origin of duckpin bowling, but if you’re from Maryland, you must believe the story of Baltimore Orioles John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson who owned a bar and bowling ...

In recent years, the near-death experience has been a way of life for city duckpins. The small-balls, small-pins, largely East Coast version of bowling has been down to just Plaza Bowl in Richmond for ...

John Rose, 44, of New Bedford, has been bowling for 40 years. When he was four years old, his dad would take him to Playdium and Midway (both centers have since closed) when he bowled in his leagues, ...

Duckpin bowling began in the back room of a smoke-filled 19th century saloon on Howard Street owned by two Orioles bound for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Wilbert Robinson and John McGraw ran the place, ...