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Thaddeus O Cooper

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Thaddeus O. Cooper was born in New Jersey. Growing up, he summered at the Jersey shore playing Skee-Ball and spent his spare time in the library the rest of the year. Educated in Fine Arts and Theatre at Penn State, he worked in technical theatre for a number of years. After shifting his career to computer science, he blended his arts background with his skills in digital technology for software development and multimedia projects. Relocating to L.A. as a sound recordist and then to the Bay Area of California, he rediscovered Skee-Ball on his iPhone and set out to produce a short video about its history and how it entered the digital age. The rest, as they say, is (Skee-Ball) history.

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Thaddeus O Cooper I've been researching Charles Bender who was a pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics in the early 1900s, so I've been reading:

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Thaddeus O Cooper I was playing Skee-Ball on my iPhone and thought someone must have written a book about the history of Skee-Ball. No one had, so I started researching…moreI was playing Skee-Ball on my iPhone and thought someone must have written a book about the history of Skee-Ball. No one had, so I started researching the history of the game and realized how many conflicting stories there were about its origin. I finally found the inventor's papers and that was when I knew we had a good story to tell.(less)
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And The Balls Roll On… | A Documentary About The Forgotten History of Skee-Ball

How did a game, invented in Vineland, New Jersey in 1908, survive two world wars, recessions and depressions, industrial transformations, and technology revolutions to become the most beloved game in arcade history? The answer to that question can be found in the new historical documentary And the Balls Roll On…: The Real Story of the Beautiful Game of Skee-Ball. This unique film features long los

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