Author name: The Pin Action Bowling

The Professional Bowlers Association hands its Playoffs winner a real WWE championship belt. Not a prop. The two executives who […]

The Professional Bowlers Association put Ernie Schlegel on ABC in a sequined jumpsuit and called him a gimmick. What that

The PBA Hall of Fame has a written standard: ten tour titles, or five with two majors. Guppy Troup had

Dell Ballard Jr. and David Ozio each won four PBA titles in 1991, but the Player of the Year vote was never as close as the count made it look — and no one checked the record.

In July 1985, Sports Illustrated published Pete Weber’s on-record cocaine confession during PBA tour competition. The organization’s commissioner never issued a single word in response.

Apollo Global Management owns bowling. In May 2026, eleven bowlers sued to break it apart — the first real test

In November 2023 the USBC ruled string pins score no different from free-fall machines. The same nineteen-page report recorded fewer

In 1991 the Professional Bowlers Association received $200,000 per show from ABC. In 1997 it was paying ABC $150,000 per show to stay on the air. The receipts have been public for twenty years. No major bowling video has ever cited them.

In 1999, the Wall Street Journal got one fact wrong about Microsoft programmer Chris Peters. Three months later, three Microsoft retirees bought the Professional Bowlers Association for $5 million.

Earl Anthony won 43 PBA titles and 6 Player of the Year awards. Twelve million people watched him bowl every Saturday for a decade. No major American network talk show ever booked him. Not once.