Kelly Kulick

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• Earl Anthony

  Earl Anthony became the first professional bowler to earn more than $100,000 in a single season, in 1975, a milestone that reflected both his own dominance and the broader commercial growth of professional bowling as a televised sport during the 1970s and early 1980s. His smooth, understated bowling style and his left-handed delivery, relatively uncommon among elite bowlers of his era, made Anthony one of the most technically admired players in PBA Tour history, and he won 43 career PBA titles, a total that stood as the tour record for decades. Anthony was named PBA Player of the Year six times, a level of sustained dominance across multiple different seasons that reflected consistency rather than a single standout peak year, and his television career as a golf color commentator after his bowling career further extended his public visibility. His combination of technical precision and sustained tour dominance throughout the peak years of professional bowling's television popularity made Anthony the sport's biggest star during an era when PBA Tour events drew genuinely significant network television ratings, a level of mainstream visibility the sport has never fully recaptured since.

• Walter Ray Williams Jr.

  Walter Ray Williams Jr. has won 47 career PBA Tour titles, the most in professional bowling history, a record built across a career spanning more than three decades of sustained top-level competition on the tour. Williams also competed professionally in horseshoe pitching, a considerably less mainstream sport, winning multiple world championships in that discipline as well — a dual-sport excellence virtually unmatched among professional athletes competing at an elite level in two entirely unrelated competitive disciplines simultaneously. His nickname "Deadeye" reflected a reputation for exceptional accuracy and consistency under pressure, and Williams was named PBA Player of the Year multiple times across different decades of his career, reflecting sustained excellence rather than a single concentrated period of dominance. Williams's combined 47 PBA titles and his unusual secondary career excellence in horseshoe pitching have made him one of the most statistically dominant and genuinely unusual multi-sport professional athletes in American sports history, and his title total remains the standard by which other PBA Tour careers are measured.

• Pete Weber

  Pete Weber, son of bowling legend Dick Weber, won 37 career PBA Tour titles and became one of the sport's most recognizable and polarizing personalities, known for flamboyant, sometimes controversial on-lane celebrations that drew both criticism and a devoted fan following distinct from the sport's more traditionally reserved competitive culture. His 2012 US Open victory celebration, in which he pointed at the camera and declared "Who do you think you are? I am!" while gesturing toward his own crotch, became one of the most widely circulated and referenced moments in modern bowling broadcast history, reflecting Weber's willingness to bring outsized personality to a sport not traditionally known for it. Weber won major PBA championships across four different decades, a level of career longevity at the tour's highest level that few bowlers have matched, and his combination of genuine technical skill with his outsized public persona made him one of the sport's most consistently discussed figures throughout his career. As the son of one of bowling's original television-era stars, Weber's own career success gave the sport a rare father-son legacy of sustained excellence, and his combined title total and multi-decade championship span place him firmly among the greatest bowlers in PBA Tour history.

• Mark Roth

  Mark Roth won 34 career PBA Tour titles and is widely credited with revolutionizing bowling technique through his powerful, high-revolution "power stroke" delivery, a style that generated significantly more ball hook and pin action than the smoother, more controlled deliveries common among his contemporaries. His unconventional, self-taught technique was initially considered unorthodox by traditional bowling instructors, but Roth's sustained tour success throughout the late 1970s and 1980s proved the approach's effectiveness and directly influenced a generation of subsequent bowlers who adopted variations of his higher-revolution style. Roth was named PBA Player of the Year four times, and his combination of raw power and technical innovation made him one of the most influential stylistic figures in the sport's history, credited with helping usher bowling technique away from its more traditionally conservative delivery approach. His influence on subsequent bowling technique is comparable to a significant swing-change influence in golf, and Roth's power-based delivery style became the technical foundation that many of the sport's subsequent power players built their own games around in the decades following his prime.

• Norm Duke

  Norm Duke has won PBA Tour titles across five different decades, from the 1980s through the 2020s, a level of sustained career longevity at the sport's highest competitive level that's essentially unmatched among professional bowlers, reflecting both remarkable physical durability and continued technical relevance across dramatically different eras of lane conditions and ball technology. His combined career title total places him among the top handful of PBA Tour bowlers in history, and Duke's technical versatility across different oil patterns and lane conditions, which have changed significantly with evolving bowling ball technology over his career, has let him remain competitive against much younger players throughout his career's later decades. Duke bowled a rare 900 series — three consecutive perfect games — in sanctioned league play in 2006, one of a small handful of bowlers in history to achieve that specific feat, a level of sustained perfection across three complete games that remains among the most statistically rare achievements in the sport. His combination of career longevity spanning five separate decades and his rare 900 series achievement have made Duke one of the most respected and statistically significant bowlers in PBA Tour history, particularly admired for his sustained relevance across such dramatically different competitive eras.