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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The sweet clang of scattering pins echoed through Western Bowl, a cavernous 68-lane bowling alley on the edge of Cincinnati. It was day one of the 1993 Super Hoinke, a Thanksgiving weekend tournament that drew hundreds of the nationâs top amateursâteachers, accountants, and truck drivers who excelled at the art of scoring strikes. They came to the Super Hoinke (âHOING-keyâ) to vie for a $100,000 grand prize and bowling-world fame. Between games, many bowlers drifted to the alleyâs pro shop to soak in the wisdom of Maurice âMoâ Pinel, a star ball designer for the sporting-goods giant AMF. Pinel had come to Cincinnati to promote his latest creation, the Sumo. The bowling ball had launched the year before, backed by a TV commercial featuring a ginormous Japanese wrestler bellyflopping down a lane, with the tagline âFlat out, more power than youâve ever seen in a bo ....
“Fear of being one of the masses… just another face.” That’s how Mo Pinel replied to a query about his worst fear in a profile that appeared in the Dec. 20, 1989 edition of the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia. There was no reason for Pinel to fret over getting lost in the bowling crowd. As so many people have noted since his passing last Friday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Pinel was one of a kind. Maurice Louis Pinel Jr. was born in 1942 and died from complications of COVID-19. Pinel was best known for his groundbreaking work in bowling ball core design and drilling techniques, which greatly contributed to the number of honor scores being rolled each season an increase some labeled as “score inflation.” ....