Ronnie Russell's win in PBA Badger Open telecast like a trip back in time

If you didn’t understand how the Badger lane pattern can be 52 feet of frustration, Tuesday night’s CBS Sports Network telecast of the PBA Badger Open stepladder finals provided a demonstration. The longest PBA pattern brings bowling back to the days when a Raisin like me had hair — and used polyester and urethane bowling balls. On many patterns back then, the proper way to play the lanes was a “fall back” shot where the ball basically went on a straight line to t...