Ernest Fosberg the first person to score a perfect score in ten-pin bowling
Bowling has been around for centuries and is good family fun being enjoyed by people around the world. It is one thing to play bowling for fun but in order to play professionally it takes lot of practice, dedication and skills. People play for years yet do not come anywhere close to scoring the perfect 300.
The first person to officially score a 300—the perfect score in ten-pin bowling—was Ernest Fosberg of Rockford, Illinois, in 1902, by rolling a strike on every single turn. Yes you heard it right, Ernest rolled a strike after strike; Fosberg rolled it in league play sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress, which seven years earlier had codified the rules for tenpin bowling, including setting the top score for ten frames at 300. You might be thinking to yourself any number of people might have rolled a 300 before then, they weren't recorded for posterity. It would be 28 years before a woman bowled a 300: Jenny Hoverson Kelleher of Madison, Wisconsin.
Here are a few milestones in the history of 300 games and the ten-pin bowling:
• Youngest player to bowl a 300: Chaz Dennis of Columbus, Ohio,
in 2006, at 10 years, 2 months; ok this makes me look really bad.
• Oldest player to bowl a 300: Berry Thomas of Nashville, Ten¬
nessee, in 2001, at 87 years, 11 months; I guess Berry has been playing for a very long time.
• First person to bowl three consecutive 300 games: Jeremy Son-
nenfeld of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1997. (There had been earlier
900s reported, but this one gets the official title; I never sent in my scores so I guess Jeremy gets the credit.)
If you are wondering how easy it is to bowl a 300 game and if you are the numbers person; here is the answer ... The odds of an average person bowling a 300 game is: 12,900 to 1.
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