Pin Action, Gianmarc Manzione
Pin Action, Gianmarc Manzione
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Pin Action
Small-Time Gangsters, High-Stakes Gambling, and the Teenage Hustler Who Became a Bowling Champion

Author: Gianmarc Manzione

Narrator: Chris Lutkin

Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/09/2014

Synopsis

Most of us think of bowling as a 'sport' in quotation marks, and bowling alleys are places with disco balls, matching shirts, and funny shoes. But in the 1960s, New York City was the center of 'action bowling,' a form of high-stakes gambling in which bowlers - often teenagers - faced off for thousands of dollars every night. When money like that is changing hands, you can bet the pressure is on (and the balls are rigged), and losses come with dire consequences. But for a few kids, the world of action bowling would turn out to be a ticket off the mean streets and onto the Professional Bowlers Association Tour. For Ernie Schlegel, it would be a chance to shed his hustler ways and become a bona fide champion.

About Gianmarc Manzione

Gianmarc Manzione is the most recognized writer in the bowling industry today. He has written on the subject for the New York Times and all of the bowling industry's highest-profile publications. Manzione fell in love with bowling as a kid growing up in Brooklyn, where he spent so much of his childhood in local bowling alleys that he was virtually raised in them. Manzione currently teaches English and creative writing at the College of Central Florida, and lives with his wife near Tampa.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert

An interesting premise, but a disappointment in the execution. In particualr I found three major problems with it: First - rather than being a general account of the subject, this is more a biography of a single bowler (and while this could admittedly be inferred from the sub-title, it is most decide......more

Goodreads review by Len

I was blessed to have grown up in the 1960's, when bowling was a popular participation and spectator sport. My parents gave me a toy bowling set and I spent hours playing with it in our basement. I developed my four-step delivery there; I didn't have room for five. I watched Championship Bowling eve......more

Goodreads review by Alicia

Growing up with parents who bowled every Sunday night in an adult league and whose one brother still bowls in a league, I understand the draw of bowling and understand its place in history (and when Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community came out and read that in college). It'......more

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