[MR] DuckPins

[Dexter Guptill]

Ninepins, however, ARE period to the best of my knowledge.
Incidentally, duckpin balls make great projectiles for 6" Coehorn
mortars.

On 8/11/05, Duke Galmr Ingolfsson <dukegalmr at wayneprecht.org> wrote:
> Achbar ibn Ali wrote:
>>How Period are they?
Galmr replied: 
> You mean bowling with 6" balls and smaller pins than regular bowling?
> It's not period at all.  Duckpin bowling was inventing in Baltimore, MD
> around 1900 by adapting a small ball that was used for variations on the
> 10 pin bowling game to the more standard rule set.



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