Not to hijack this thread, but a little about bowling in my area...
Mark, unlike pool, the game of bowling has changed leaps and bounds in the past 40-50 years. Back then balls were made of solid hard rubber. Today they are made up of the latest and greatest polyurethanes and have plutonium reactors for cores.
But seriously, where I bowled (Wilkes-Barre, PA), 846 is
nothing - and I mean nothing. I would bet it is not even in the top 50 all-time series ever bowled in our association (Wyoming Valley Bowling Association). It was in our association that the old team record of the St Louis Budweisers (3,858) was originally broken back in 1994. In fact, I personally witnessed it. And another thing no one else probably knows is that same team (Hurst's Bowling Supplies) came within a whisker of beating it the week before. Like Mosconi's 526, the Budweisers' 3,858 was regarded as THE record in bowling.
All time I have 17 300 games and 5 800 series. There's guys in our association who have had more 300 games than that in a SINGLE SEASON (not in the same league, but in combined leagues - there's guys who bowl 4-5 nights a week), and I remember a guy on Wednesday night a few years back who had 800 SIX WEEKS IN A ROW.
In fact, to put it in pool terms, I was just a mere shortstop compared to a lot of the guys in that association.
http://www.britannica.com/facts/5/474162/bowling-as-discussed-in-Bowling-Year-In-Review-1994