Everyone knew the major names in bowling pin manufacturing, but smaller companies also got in on the tenpin bowling boom. Hand Split Handle Company was a lumber company in Lyndonville, Vermont. What b ...

Lin Kessler, a native of Dijon, France, spent more than 50 years collecting early bowling equipment. Some of the earliest, most rudimentary bowling pins are little more than driftwood. Others are more ...

What a durable pin! Even as the exterior coating began to chip away, Brunswick’s King Pins withstood the assaults from ball and machine.

The Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour (LPBT) was a private women’s bowling organization started in 1981 after the dissolution of the short-lived Women’s Professional Bowlers Association (WPBA). In 1998, the LPB ...

In the 1930s, some U.S. cities banned the nine-pin bowling game because people were taking too much time off work to play it. Nine-pin bowling differs in many ways from the ten-pin game that most are ...

Bowling as we know it has roots that stretch back centuries to mainland Europe.

To the untrained eye, bowling equipment may all seem the same. But just as proprietors choose distinctive alley accessories such as seating and flooring, they also decide what bowling equipment to use ...

Bowling fans used pins for all sorts of creative projects, including for dolls, complete with clothing, hair and arms. Though the precise history of these pins is unknown, it is possible they are affi ...

In addition to playing an integral role in bowling game play, bowling pins have come to serve many other purposes. Engraved pins might have been given as prizes or souvenirs following participation in ...

Toy pins were, of course, not approved by the ABC for official use. But that didn’t mean bowlers and their families couldn’t set them up in the house or on the lawn for some practice and some fun. ...