Mark Roth made a plastic ball hook with his hand. Reactive resin made more hook a purchase. The PBA later

By 1972 Japan had built almost as many bowling lanes as the entire United States, and more per person. Two

Therm Gibson won $75,000 in about 20 minutes on Jackpot Bowling—more than Mickey Mantle’s documented 1961 contract. Six strikes bought

The White House bowling story includes string pins, a $253,000 lighting contract and decades of bowling-industry money. This documentary follows

The 1991 Nu-Line X-Calibur launched bowling’s reactive-resin revolution. It stayed legal while rulemakers later targeted urethane instead: the wrong ball.

Chad Murphy runs the USBC, the body that certifies and bans every bowling ball in America. Its own published bio

The Professional Bowlers Association runs a private tollbooth between every ball brand and the TV broadcast, and the fee to

Rudy Kasimakis, the Long Island action bowler they called Rudy Revs, beat PBA champions for a year’s pay in a

Most bowling alleys did not fail. The land under them became worth more than the business on top of it.

The most-used ball on the 1992 PBA Tour was poured in Dundalk, Maryland, 800 a day, by workers earning about