candlepins
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We were “Born to Bowl,” as the documentary says, though its directors, James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, are less concerned with birthday parties or weekly leagues—or duckpins, or candlepins—than they are with the intrepid few who seek a career on the Professional Bowlers Association tour.
New England, the heart of smaller-sized duck-and candlepins. is giving way to the tenpin boom.
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