| #682538 in Books | 2016-02-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.80 x.70 x5.60l,.0 | File type: PDF | 336 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A great read and a great ride!|By Lazy Shopper|Manzione does a great job of telling the story in a way appropriate to the subject matter. I imagined myself in a smokey bowling alley, hearing these great, mostly unknown men tell their "back in the day" stories. I'm not a bowler, but the pages of the book have me planning my next outing to the lanes!|2 of 2 people found the foll||“A thoroughly entertaining slice of twisted Americana, New York gangster style. Only in the Big Apple could something so pure and Middle America as bowling become so infused with most of the seven deadly sins. Put it on the shelf with The Big Lebowsk
"The Color of Money" meets "The Big Lebowski." Pin Action is an inspiring and improbable story of transcendence, redemption, survival and one of the greatest, forgotten sports legends in New York City sports history.
Most of us think of bowling as a "sport" in quotation marks, and bowling alleys are places with disco balls, matching shirts, and funny shoes. But in the 1960s, New York City was the center of "action bowling", a form ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Pin Action: Small-Time Gangsters, High-Stakes Gambling, and the Teenage Hustler Who Became a Bowling Champion | Gianmarc Manzione. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.