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TV's Golden Age of Candlepin Bowling
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Audience Age
45+
“Hold on to Your Tray Tables, Boys and Girls!”
This was the Saturday lunchtime rally cry from legendary Channel 5 sportscaster Don Gillis. Every week for nearly four decades, families slurped tomato soup and crunched on grilled cheese sandwiches while the world’s best candlepin bowlers performed otherworldly feats for over 200,000 TV viewers. Candlepin Bowling, often the top-rated Boston sports show of the week, made names like Czernicki, Olszta, and Jutras as familiar as Bird, Yastrzemski and Orr.
Mike Morin’s new book, Lunch With Tommy and Stasia: TV’s Golden Age of Candlepin Bowling, is the very first behind-the-scenes look at what made these pop-up stars tick. Morin watched hundreds of hours of classic TV matches and then sought out the bowlers to uncover what really happened on (and off) the lanes.
As a TV co-host of nearly 300 candlepin bowling episodes in Boston and New Hampshire, Morin got to know the players personally. They didn’t hold back as they shared their stories, many never heard before.
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Group Size
5+
Program Length
60-70 minutes
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Last Modified
05/29/2024
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Mike MorinNashua, NH 03062
Candlepin bowling continues to be a popular family activity. It is unique to New England and Eastern Canada and Bay Stters are fiercely proud of their ownnership of what they call "real bowling." My book, LUNCH WITH TOMMY AND STASIA-TV's GOLDEN AGE OF CANDLEPIN BOWLING is the go-to source for media stories about the game and its colorful characters. My book, now in its 2nd printing, won the NH Writers Project Best Non-Fiction Work in 2021.