Chuck Jimenez
Gold Medal Honoree
- July 13, 2002
Roll of Fame Honoree –
Chuck Jimenez
Modesto Mexican-American Bowling League
Gold Medallion
How many of you have a current average of 200 or
more? Let’s see a show of hands for all
right-handed 200 average or more. Look around,
how many do you see? OK; how many left-handed
200 average or more? Look around again. OK,
let’s get tough. How many here have carried a
200 or more average both left handed and right
handed? Who
do you see? Charles “Chuck” Jimenez from
Modesto, California.
Chuck is this
year’s Gold Category inductee. Like everyone
that knows Chuck, I wondered why and how a guy
gets started bowling left and right handed. So I
asked him. After completing his junior bowling
years, Chuck became a junior coach. He found he
could easily help right handed bowlers, which is
his natural side, but helping left handed
bowlers was not as easy for him. So he taught
himself to bowl left handed and has done so for
many years.
He has
recorded sanctioned 300 games and 800 series
both right and left handed. And you will catch
him periodically trying to use both sides in a
game and you have to stop and tell him it’s
illegal. He just smiles and reverts back to the
side he started the game with. Chuck is just
messing with your head and having fun.
Chuck was
also one of the originators of the Modesto
Mexican-American Bowling League and one of its
first tournament directors and many of their
tournaments were catered by Chuck.
Congratulations, Chuck Jimenez.
