The Hole Story: A History of Skee-Ball

(via mental_floss)  Up until recently, it was common for accounts of Skee-Ball’s history to name Princeton University alumni J. Dickinson Este as the man behind the game. As the story goes, Este was motivated to find an inventive birthday gift for his son in 1909 and decided to craft an alley for a small, handheld ball using lumber he had obtained from his father’s successful wood business, and Skee-Ball was born. But, it’s totally not true.