5 1 Z Z L 3 T R 0 N 1 C 5: Man Bowls 300 Then Dies

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Man Bowls 300 Then Dies

Published 12.30.2005 by Scott Webster | E-mail this post

The first thing I thought of when I heard this was the night when Donny dies in The Big Lebowski. Not sure why. Maybe because he dies right after bowling. So I started looking for pictures of Donny but all I could find was pictures of Steve Buscemi not in character. So instead, you get a picture of Jesus. That creep can roll, man.

FROM THE AP:

PORTAGE, Mich. - A bowler collapsed and died at a bowling alley shortly after rolling the third perfect game of his life.

Ed Lorenz, 69, bowled a 300 on Wednesday in his first league game of the night at Airway Lanes. When the retiree got up to bowl in the fifth frame of his second game, he clutched his chest and fell over, and efforts to revive him failed. The cause of death wasn't immediately known.

"If he could have written a way to go out, this would be it," said Johnny D. Masters, who was bowling with Lorenz.

Friends said Lorenz started bowling in 1957 and ended last season with a 223 average. He rolled his first two 300 games over a one-week period in 2004.

In May, Lorenz was inducted into the Kalamazoo Metro Bowling Association Hall of Fame.