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BILLED: The Kickstarter-funded documentary about Bill Fong’s 899 series is billed as “the greatest bowling story ever told.”
EVERYTHING BOWLING, ALL THE TIME
HOME SWEET HOME: Bill Fong, a Plano Super Bowl regular, is
such a familiar face at the establishment that it might as well be his second home.
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GREATEST BOWLING STORY EVER TOLD
IN ONE NIGHT, BOWLER BILL FONG EXPERIENCED THE HIGHEST — AND LOWEST — MOMENTS OF HIS LIFE.
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so close to perfection that it nearly killed him” might sound like another choice bit of Hol- lywood hyperbole. Until you watch the Kickstarter-funded
short documentary about the night near-perfection quite lit- erally did almost kill the Plano, Texas, native. The Dallas-based D Maga-
zine picked up the story shortly
after it broke in January, 2010. Bill Fong, an Asian-American bowler who has structured his life in exclusive devotion to the sport he loves, posted 35 con- secutive strikes on January 18,
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2010, during a Monday night league session at Plano Super Bowl. The bowling lifer swears he
never thought about shooting a 900 series that night until the final frame of the final game. With a roaring crowd behind his pair, he trips out the 4-9 on the first shot, then blasts a flush strike on the second. It seemed he would do so again
with a great final shot, but, finally, the 10-pin withstood the blow, leaving Fong one pin short of perfection. But the story does not end
there. Watch the brief docu- mentary, which The New York Times picked up and began streaming on its website in March, to find out why this may indeed be “the greatest bowling story ever told.”
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