2010 Season
Tuesday Nights, June 1-July 27
Status: Waiting list
Read the article about MWBB that ran in the Seattle P-I.
Listen to the MWBB anthem challenge.
This is not your typical lawn bowling league. How many lawn bowling leagues have an anthem? We don’t wear whites. We sometimes cheer and shout. Most of us are not retired. We are actors, musicians, landscapers, architects, software engineers, teachers, etc.
Men With Big Bowls began in the summer of 2004 not as a group of avid lawn bowlers, but as a group of 17 guys that wanted an excuse to spend time together. The inagural season was so successful that the number of bowlers was expanded to 32 in 2005, to 36 in 2006 and now is 50 strong.
The league is relaxed, yet competitive. We don’t take ourselves too seriously as represented by our coveted trophy—a large engraved metal turkey platter.
Rather than traditional double or triples teams selected at the beginning of the season, each week teams are drawn from the pool of guys that show up.
The league is full. But you can get on the waiting list.
For more information contact mwbb@seattlebowls.org.
MWBB-2009
MWBB 2008
John Fulton on top of MWBB 2006
Over nine weeks 36 guys compete on the greens of Beacon Hill, but only one gets to have his name engraved in the coveted "Turkey Platter". John Fulton is that man. He joins the legendary likes of E. Ray Anderson and Chris Q. Davis as a champion. A champion with Big Bowls.
On a night when most would have put their money on David Branch who had held the leader's yellow towel for six weeks, Fulton managed (with the help of doubles partner Gregg Loughridge) a nine-point victory over Tom Zachary and Gene Freedman. That gave him the plus point he needed to edge out Vic Valdez who had come from behind (with the help of David Drummond) to edge out Anthony Peiffer and Richard Glasman.
Mike Larson assured himself third place with a victory over favorite David Branch.
This band of bowling brothers will reconvene next year to eat heated tubes of meat, consume beverages and roll slightly-less-than-round orbs on the field of green in pursuit of the silver turkey.
