Candlepin Bowling - Paul Berger's Legendary 500 Triple (Full Telecast) 

I worked for Sun Microsystems which is now Oracle. Never met Paul but what of like to. Growing Up in Woburn used to go to the the bowling alley on Montvale Ave

Doug that's freaking hilarious!

Fo sho

Kinda funny my pops was a purchasing manager for mobile telesystems and they would bowl all the time.

The crazy thing about your comment, is that the second I read it, the commentator said it lol.

Not a bad axiom old timer.

I'm going to be 60 this year. 200+ bowler, and this is the 1st I've heard of it.

Have you heard of duckpin bowling? Check it out.

Same here, 60, bowled lots. Saw this last week

Do come to New England and bowl it

Don Gillis was somewhat of a legend here in Boston. I watched these bowling matches just about every weekend when I was a kid.

@@markdisanzo3796 Gillis isn't somewhat of a legend. He IS a legend. Grew up listening to that guy. He was a total pro and was almost never ruffled. But he loved a good joke and every once in a while something would strike him funny and he'd get a little off the spot. Great memories.

@@markdisanzo3796 so did I till it got taken off the air in 2005. It baffles me how Paul got a 193 in the 3rd string. He was really in the zone.

Don was a native of Nova Scotia.

Don Gillis, Doug Brown, Paul Mennier, and Bruce Stephen were the best Candlepin Bowling announcers you can get.

He got absolutely steamrolled, so what else could he do? These guys were always classy.

"Hang on to your tray tables, boys and girls"

YOU DONT EVEN KNOW CANDLEPIN BOWLING

@@sunspot6502 loved when he said that

I’ve spent my entire life in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and always found it weird that our bowling is different than what you see on tv. It’s literally impossible to find big ball bowling alleys over here still today.

My experiences exactly. I'm 55 and remember this live. Nice to relive it.

It's like a complete flip of west coast. Can't find candlepin bowling alleys over here. I lived in New Hampshire briefly when I was 9 years old and got to try candlepin, I hated it. I was a "big ball" league and tournament bowler and just couldn't understand how this worked. As an adult I would love to try again.

​@@darklordojedayou just gotta send the ball straight at the target. The lanes aren't oiled like 10-pin so hooking your shots doesn't work. There's way less margin for error so it's easy to brick shots. It's part of the fun. Getting a strike is like hitting a homerun as apposed to 10-pin where leaving anything standing feels like a strikeout.

I've never seen any candlepin bowling her in upstate New York, but I'd love to try it sometime. It seems more strategical and looks fun. I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem getting hooked.

I grew up watching the show every Saturday and bowling in a league at the Wakefield Bowladrome. I moved away from the area in 2002 and the first thing I did when I came back home to Wakefield for a visit was go bowling. It's right up there with New England-style Chinese food and Super Beef sandwiches on the list of things I miss living on the West Coast now.

@@SimuLord I agree it is right up there with the New England Chinese food. Which is still huge on New Years. At least that has not changed. I used to bowl in Natick all the time in the 80s and 90s. I miss it. That area has changed so much.

Lol I lived in Tennessee my whole life and used to watch this on Satellite Dish as it was on NESN and replayed during the week on tons of SportsChannels. I never understood why so many of the bowlers was from Massachusetts.

@@kennethhall289 It was such a huge sport locally back then.

Also grew up in Natick and rolled at the Fairway with Dad and brother. It was our winter activity.

He was always right on top of things and certainly well prepared. Very well produced broadcast, too: cameras, direction, replays, all of it.

An average of 167 for 3 games.

Two events in history I’ll always remember what I was doing for; 9/11 and Paul Berghers legendary 500

@@rizzorizzo2311 lol

@@rizzorizzo2311 9/11? What's that?

The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Candlepins For Cash with Bob Gramere.

Bay State Bowling in the Seventies.

@@AlanNelsonUNC Bay State Bowling was taped at in the bottom floor of the State Mutual Life building in Worcester. One of their companies was Hanover Insurance for whom my Father worked as an area marketing director his final fourteen years there.

me to

And Its still on tv what do u live in a cave???

FS1

I watched Ch 5 bowling from the late 50s when it started, but I've probably watched more candlepin bowling than that in the past decade on RU-vid.

read your last word again, hahaha

It IS more challenging. Nobody has EVER gotten a perfect 300 in Candlepin. What does that tell ya?

@@Mdg897 read carefully idiot...

@@Mdg897 tells me that I want to go try a candlepin bowling that's what it tells me looks like the first 300 might be mine

@@lefttheleft8934Hey, look son a real life Lahoo-Zaher in the wild. Don't mind him, boy. Dumb people are EVERYWHERE.

Don Gillis was a legendary Boston sportscaster

I'm from Braintree Massachusetts, I grew up playing candlepin, as a matter of fact I didn't know 10 pin even existed as a youngster. I have since moved to about 7 different states across the US, and have never once seen candlepin bowling outside of Massachusetts. I'm surprised it's not more popular, it's difficult, yet very fun and rewarding.

@@jimmysp4des229 Braintree guy here too. Played at Olindy's as a kid and then Timber Lanes when I could drive. Have since moved away and I also have never seen the game anywhere else. My Dad would take me to Boston Bowl so I did play a little tenpin growing up but I always thought candelpin was the better game. I'm planning a trip home for the spring may have to see if the old balls are still at the parents house...

@Josh Smith hey Josh, I know this is one in a million, but do you have a brother named Matt? Burns here.

Minnesota resident here originally from Massachusetts. Every time I go bowling in MN, I talk up candlepin bowling. Actually once found another candlepin fan at Flaherty's Arden Bowl. WE NEED IT HERE IN MN!! :)

I was born that month and year on the 22nd the same year the PBA tour originated. I'm better known for the sport of pinball being a former 6 time world champion. I bowled on the professional bowler's tour and was a top 5 pin bowler in Canada. Bowled candlepins in Moncton, New Brunswick but lived in Toronto Canada at the time.

And this match happened when the pin action was not nearly as lively as it is now.

Wait till you learn about duckpin. They're like fat little soda bottles. I bowled professionally in my younger years out west, and moved to new England and was blown away by candlestick/duckpin.

It was must watch TV for me for many years. When it first aired in October 1958, I was but a few weeks old.

It is a great game and certainly unique to this area.

I would say the same thing. I grew up in a bowling alley, been bowling since I was big enough to hold a ball. And this variation is just plain weird. Not knocking it, it is just foreign to me.

I am too, but I grew up and have lived in CT my entire 46 years on earth, and we have it all here lol.

@@jasoncamp483 this is similar to duckpin bowling and Baltimore.

@@Gladpants I bowled duck pin a few times in the late 80s. You're right it is. I had almost forgotten about it.

Funzo Boston College football (trash) cancelled this show. Too bad. Never came back.

holy crap a year later and I just said the same thing. Its like the Matrix refreshed.

@@Texacer well of course they update the servers for others

I’ve heard of it, never seen it until just now 🙂

For me its a trip home... and saturdays... soccer, then come home, dad would make hamburgers, we'd finish off looney tunes (unless it was a late soccer game) and then it was time for bowling.

This is when times were simpler

Well it is legendary.

"Anything" LOL. This anything is the greatest triple ever bowled in the history of Candlepin bowling on TV. Truly phenomenal.

@@bobhayett2376 I was thoroughly entertained having never heard of candlepin bowling before in my life.

I want women’s collegiate candlepin bowling

I visited the Candlepin Bowling Hall of Fame in Dunn, Illinois.

Same for me. I'd like to try this and duck pin and see how it compares. My inclination would be to fade it in from the outside of the lane and hit the ball with my ring and middle fingers but clearly that's not an optimal strategy

This game far more difficult than 10 pin. Its easy in that anyone can roll a 2.6 lbs ball. But the ball is about the same diameter of the pin so you have to very accurate. The dead wood helps,but it can also hinder.

RU-vid is the only place to watch new matches. The RU-vid channel spread eagle productions. Granted its a one man show,he's trying at least.

Westgate in Brockton is a mixed house. I bowl tenpin there, but the candlepin lanes there are seemingly always in use. It's good to see.

Mohegan Candlepin in Webster is still open and doing well all these years later if you're still itching for a game. If I didn't live on the WC now, i sure as hell would!

@@peteg475 there were at least 3 alleys in Brockton when I grew up there. Westgate, Maple Alleys, and there was one on Lawrence Street behind the Brockton Cafe. I also remember a duckpin alley in the early 60's.

HOBO FISHERMAN I HATE you lmaoooo. Tracking was clutch as ever tho

R.I.P DON GILLIS AND FAIRWAY LANES

Yep,plus eastern Canada!

Met him in person at a pro tour stop in 2002. Good guy.

...and those Argyle socks...

Holyoke mass is such a bad area nowadays sadly I'm currently living here myself. I've been to the south wick lanes before I like it alot check it out once in. Awhile when I can

I live in Fall River Mass

I bowled on the professional bowler's tour and was one of the top 5 pin bowlers in Canada. Never could break the 600 mark for 3 games in candlepin bowling. I did have a shot at the 245 but blew it in the 11th frame and shot 241. I bowled candlepins in Moncton, New Brunswick.

I'm a Southerner (Georgia) and I have heard of duckpins and candlepins, but never seen either one until seeing both here on RU-vid.

It wouldn't be for long as soon after this, he bowled a 220.

None. You have to go north of Connecticut to find them. Plenty of candlepin houses still left in the Boston area. I think there's one or two in Ohio, and that's it. It's a New England-Canadian Maritimes sport.

He switches balls twice, both were strikes.

Every morning!

That's what she said.

Obviously......