Along with the “pallino,” which is a small, usually white, target ball, bocce equipment includes eight larger, colored balls, often in two different-colored sets of four. Each team gets four ...

Along with the “pallino,” which is a small, usually white, target ball, bocce equipment includes eight larger, colored balls, often in two different-colored sets of four. Each team gets four ...

In bocce, a small pallino ball is thrown in the court. Players each have two balls and try to throw them as close to the pallino as possible and knock their opponent’s balls out of the way.

John Redaelli measures the distance from ball to the pallino at the bocce courts in Murdy Park in Huntington Beach, CA, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register ...

John Redaelli measures the distance from ball to the pallino at the bocce courts in Murdy Park in Huntington Beach, CA, on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) ...

When I left my home office recently to meet up with some friends who needed a fill-in for a game of bocce at Pacific Palisades’ Veterans Gardens, I knew I’d be squinting as I adjusted to the ...