

Why didn't he set up a backstop?



"Because I was 6 years old and you don't think everything through," he said.



He estimates he's bowled about 40 games a week for a dozen years, which works out to more than 24,000 games.



Practice makes perfect, they said. It did for him, 47 frames in a row.



Courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer

Written by Peter Mucha

Inquirer Staff Writer

Practice makes perfect, they said. It did for him, 47 frames in a row.

He estimates he's bowled about 40 games a week for a dozen years, which works out to more than 24,000 games.

"Because I was 6 years old and you don't think everything through," he said.

Why didn't he set up a backstop?

He was 5 when he started bowling. A Saturday league wasn't enough. Soon, he was practicing regularly on an asphalt driveway, using old pins and an old ball - then running to catch the ball before went over a hill, across a road and disappeared into a creek, he said.