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March 06, 2008
Lefty Kraly Update
Via USBC Communications:
More than five decades ago, Steve Kraly of Johnson City, N.Y., helped Major League Baseball's New York Yankees to a record fifth-consecutive World Series title.
Now 55 years later, the 78-year-old left-hander traveled to the Albuquerque Convention Center in search of a prestigious title of a different kind at the USBC Open Championships.
This week, Kraly made his 19th appearance at the Open Championships, an event that began in 1901 and pre-dates the modern World Series by two years. Each year, more than 60,000 bowlers take to the tournament lanes seeking championship glory in team, doubles, singles and all-events.
During his bowling career, Kraly has proven that he can throw strikes on the lanes as well as he did on the pitcher's mound, and the accomplished southpaw has multiple 300 games to his credit.
...Steve Kraly of Johnson City, N.Y., helped Major League Baseball's New York Yankees to a record fifth-consecutive World Series title...
In 1953, pitching in his only big league season, Kraly appeared in 5 games for the Yankees - facing 111 batters, notching 25 innings, while allowing 19 hits, 16 walks, and plunking two batters.
O.K, so, the USBC got a little loose with some of their words. In any event, kudos to Kraly for still going strong at the young age of seventy-eight. We should all be that good when we're knocking on the door of our eighth decade.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at March 6, 2008 09:51 PM