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Near-Hall of Famer Ryan Ciminelli retires as full-time PBA Tour player to take 'real' job

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Monday, July 6, 2020 6:00 pm
Near-Hall of Famer Ryan Ciminelli retires as full-time PBA Tour player to take 'real' job
Ryan Ciminelli competing for the Portland Lumberjacks during the PBA League in 2017. Photo by Pro Bowlers Association.
The term “real” job has been around in top-level bowling for as long as I have been part of it, which is more than four decades. If you had a “real” job — a full-time regular job — you obviously couldn’t be a full-time professional bowler. And many a pro bowler who couldn’t cut it, or tired of the lifestyle, would leave as soon as they could find a “real” job. I was such a player, though my wrist drove me off the Tour after...