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A handful of 300 games have been broadcast on live TV. Grazio Castellano of Brooklyn, New York, was the first to roll a 300 game on live television. This occurred on October 4, 1953, during an Eastern All-Star league session in Newark, New Jersey. [2] (Castellano is a member of the United States Bowling Congress Hall of Fame.)
The United States Bowling Congress (USBC) is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States.It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress—the original codifier of all tenpin bowling standards, rules, and regulations from 1895 onwards; the Women's International Bowling Congress—founded in 1916, as the female bowlers' counterpart to ...
Member of the Maryland State USBC Hall of Fame (2009) Member of the Greater Baltimore Bowling Association Hall of Fame (2009) Voted 42nd greatest player of the PBA's first 50 years by the PBA and bowling media (2008) Elected to the Bowlers Journal All-American Team in 1990, 1991, 1996, 1999, 2002–03, 2004–05; Elected to Bowling Digest ...
Jim Stefanich (born November 1, 1941) [1] is a retired American right-handed ten-pin bowler most known for his years in the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). Stefanich won 14 PBA Tour titles, including two major championships, and rolled the third-ever televised perfect 300 game in a PBA Tour event.
A member of both the PBA and USBC Halls of Fame, Duke is one of only three players in history to reach 40 career PBA Tour titles. [1] He has bowled 73 [ 2 ] perfect 300 games in PBA competition, including the 16th televised 300 game in PBA Tour history on January 5, 2003.
Inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame on April 29, 2015. Three-time PWBA Player of the Year (2015, 2016, 2017) Holds the all-time record for women's major championships (10) One of two women (with Kelly Kulick) to have won a title on the national PBA Tour. Only bowler with multiple televised 300 games in PWBA title events (2001, 2021)
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) is the major sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling in the United States.Headquartered in Mechanicsville, Virginia, [1] and currently owned by Bowlero Corporation since 2019, [2] the PBA's membership consists of over 3,000 members worldwide. [3]
In 2008, Salvino won the BPAA's Dick Weber Bowling Ambassador Award, an honor given annually to the "bowling athlete who has consistently shown grace on and off the lanes by promoting the sport of bowling in a positive manner." [13] One of the oil patterns the PBA uses tournaments is the "Carmen Salvino 44", which is 44 feet (13.41 meters) in ...