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ESPN The Magazine Breaks Down PBA Spare Shooting


The Feb. 7 edition of ESPN The Magazine included an analysis of the 20 most common spare attempts after breaking down video of PBA matches between 2005 and 2010.


A few items of note: • Players threw strikes on 4,374 of 7,155 first-ball attempts (a 61.13% success rate), meaning they also had to make 2,781 spare attempts.


• No one has converted a 7-10 on a PBA telecast since Jess Stayrook did it in Tucson, Ariz., in 1991. Mark Roth (Alameda, Calif., 1980) and John Mazza (Sunrise, Fla., 1991) are the only others who have ever con- verted the 7-10 on a PBA telecast.


• When Walter Ray Williams Jr. (pictured) converted the “Big Four” (4-6-7-10) in 2005, he not only was the only player among 30 who made the split during the magazine’s study period, but the only person in PBA television history to convert it.


LEAVE ATTEMPTS CONVERSION PERCENTAGE


10 7 4 2 6 9 8


3-6-10 4-7 3


6-10 7-10 3-6 2-8


3-10 4-9


2-10


4-6-7-10 3-6-9-10 2-4-7


710 333 241 115 90 88 73 71 57 56 56 53 53 49 35 31 30 30 28 24


95.9 95.5 97.1 97.4 96.7 98.9 97.3 77.5 98.2 96.4 92.9 0


96.2 91.8 48.6 16.1 10


3.3


57.1 83.3


NEWS, NOTES AND HAPPENINGS FROM THE WORLD OF BOWLING


The Bowling Vote


Where do you go to get in touch with the common man? Why, at a bowling center, of course! That’s what Chicago’s new mayor and former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel did in late January. No word on if he actually did any bowling like his former boss President Obama famously (and poorly) did during his own campaign tour before the last presidential election!


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