Industry History

The Night Bowling Went Major League On the night of October 12, 1961, a seven-piece jazz band played inside a […]

The Vote That Cost Bowling the Olympics Francois Lavoie is a Professional Bowlers Association champion — he won the PBA

The Major That Died Healthy The Professional Bowlers Association once ran the richest, most prestigious event in the sport: the

The $200 Shoe and the $6 Rental Jason Belmonte has won more major titles than any bowler in Professional Bowlers

Three Companies Make Every PBA Ball Only three companies in the world are allowed to make the bowling ball a

The Tire Company That Set the Price In 1965, the Professional Bowlers Association held its first Firestone Tournament of Champions

The Photo That Got a Man Banned In 1948, the American Bowling Congress banned a man from every alley it

The Number That Stopped Counting The Professional Bowlers Association sits at the top of a pyramid most bowlers never think

$42 a Week vs $7,800 a Night Through the early 1960s, Ernie Schlegel earned about $42 a week behind the

America’s #1 Sport at Its Peak On any given week in 1960, more Americans laced up bowling shoes than swung