Chris Jepson

By ChrisJepson

Southernmost Bocce.

Yesterday, 24th February, marked the beginning of the Spring 2020 season of the Southermost Bocce League, one of the largest leagues in the USA, that plays at least 4 evenings a week.
Since the Sons of Italy brought bocce, also known as Italian lawn bowling, to Key West in the late 1980s, this island city has been synonymous with the game. The fraternal order built courts at Indigenous Park, at White Street and Atlantic Boulevard, and founded the Southernmost Bocce League, creating a Conch institution. Per capita, Key West now has the most bocce players in the world!
With origins in ancient Rome, bocce centres on aiming a small ball (the pallina) at larger balls of different colours with the goal of landing as close as possible.

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