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Vol I, Issue 25, June 24, 2002
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Come visit us often at www.joyofbocce.com. We have bocce info, merchandise, links to other great bocce sites, and the best selling bocce instructional book in the USA. http://www14.mawebcenters.com/striker/orderform.ivnu Order Now @ $12.95. (Just click the book cover image to the right)
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No one came forth with a definition or derivation of Clemenza Affinito's question about "why the first player (the one who throws the pallino) is called the sixth man?" {I have heard this player referred to as the "point man" or "pointer" but never the sixth man.}
Regarding lesson plans for teaching bocce, Henry from the United States Bocce Federation offered this..."I have training manuals for bocce. There are at least three major forms of bocce: volo raffa and open. Most of the people in the U.S. play open. Most of the rest of the world plays volo and raffa. These are much more technical and have more published on them. {Contact the US Bocce Federation via their website @ http://www.bocce.com}
Enrico (Rick) Doganiero who recently moved from the Philadelphia area to north central Pennsylvania ordered my book and sent this great email. "My home sits on a lovely flat lot in the mountains. I have been considering constructing a bocce court for about 2 years and have finally decided this is the year. I look forward to receiving your book and constructing my court. I also have dreams of starting an annual Bocce tournament for friends from the country and back in Philadelphia. This would start at a grass roots level but should grow very rapidly. Some of my fondest memories as a child was playing bocce with my family. To this day I remember several heated "discussions" between my uncles over whose ball is closer. The discussions usually became more heated after a few glasses of wine. While we didn't have the elegant measuring devise you list, one of my uncle's belts usually worked in a pinch." {Those old-school Italian men made good use of their belts as I recall}
George Farruggio of Punto Gordo, Florida says "PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE tell Steve Watkins of Santa Monica, Calif. to let Steve Mariucci know the name of the game is BOCCE and you play with a bocce ball!!!!! It's like saying let's go play bowling ball." {Yes, this is a sore point with me too. We need to get people used to referring to the game as bocce, not bocce ball. Would a hockey player invite friends to play some hockey puck? When they refer to a bocce tournament as a bocce ball tournament it isn't quite so offensive...I can live with it...a basketball tourney, baseball tourney, bocce ball tourney...I'm not crazy about it, but I can deal with it. But to say "let's play some bocce ball" really grates on my nerves. I love language and often marvel at how misused words become acceptable if enough people use them. I hear on morning radio that traffic is backed up to the Sutton Street "merge". Hey, merge is a verb. You can't refer to the place where merging takes place as a merge. But, if enough people use it, those of us who know language will be forced to "yield to this kind of merger."}
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Please - anyone running a tournament - do me a favor - put a notice near your tourney bracket board informing players that they can go to http://www.joyofbocce.com and "opt in" for my FREE Ezine on bocce.
June 23, 2002 - Open Bocce Tournament in Downey, California. Held at Apollo Park Downey Senior Center. Entry fee = $35 per person or $140 per team. Includes coffee and doughnuts at the 8:30 AM meeting and lunch at noon. Also, you get 3 chances to win round trip air faire to Italy - sponsored by Merano Tours of Los Angeles. Accepting 16 to 24 teams - double elimination event. Contact Perry Michienza @ 562-869-8782 or email pmichienza@aol.com or fax 562-8691772.
June 29, 2002, there will be a charity bocce fundraising event to be held in Charleston, SC. Team fee is $400, 32 teams already registered (double elimination). The proceeds go to Special Olympics. More info: e-mail pwbyers@mindspring.com.
August, 2002 - Chattanooga Southeastern Tournament. "The most scenic court in the South." For more information on the August tournament (and photos), click http://www14.mawebcenters.com/striker/Chattanooga.ivnu. If you come to play this August, you'll get an added bonus - you get to meet me! I serve as referee for the games.
August 24 and 25 - IL PRIMO PENNSYLVANIA BOCCE INVITATIONAL, Scranton, Pennsylvania. August 1st = entry deadline.
The biggest bocce competition on the East Coast. Open Division as well as Novice with four-player teams in each (all roll one ball), and tournament is open to both men and women. Entry fee $30.00 per player for the Open Division and $20.00 per player for the Novice - ALL entry fees going toward cash prizes. Guaranteed minimum first place cash prize of $1,000.00 in the Open Division and $400.00 first place prize in Novice Division. Contact: Jim Cawley @ slick00@adelphia.net or call (1 800 229-3526)
September 8, 2002 - Sunshine Village Universal Bocce Bowl - Szot Park, Chicopee, Massachusetts. Four player teams - Entrance fee = $200 (fee includes competition, T-shirt, lunch and dinner for all players) - For more information call 413-592-6142. If you come to play this September, you'll get an added bonus - you get to meet me and my teammates from Home Run Park in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL, NO MATTER WHAT PART OF THE COUNTRY, SEND US YOUR TOURNAMENT INFO SO WE CAN GET THE WORD OUT IN THIS COLUMN. PEOPLE MAY WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN YOUR EVENT OR JUST VISIT TO CHECK IT OUT TO "BROADEN THEIR HORIZONS."
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