Geezer reunion: After 7 years, our 11thFrame.com Eagle-winning team is back together
JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: 5/3/2023, 1:00 PM
Our team at the 2005 USBC Open Championships when we won the team all-events Eagle and Steve Richter and I won the doubles Eagle. Left to right, Marc McDowell, Richter, myself. Gail Myers Jr, Mike Shady. Photo by USBC.
I have jokingly called our 2023 USBC Open Championships the “geezer reunion” because the combined ages of our 11thFrame.com Eagle-winning team is 286.
Marc McDowell and I both are 60, Mike Shady and Gail Myers Jr. both are 57, and Steve Richter is 52.
The last time we bowled as a team at the Open Championships was 2016, with USBC rule “enhancements” ending the run we began when we realigned our 10-man group in 2001.
Before the 2016 Open Championships, I wrote in this stor...