Under the palms, a dream is born.

We probably fared much better than most middle-class people during the Depression because of the Bowlers Journal Press Service, the company’s longtime ace-in-the-hole. My father’s newspaper chums around the country knew that he would be present at almost every major tournament, so they’d call and ask him for results. At first, it was a pro-bono arrangement. Then he started charging for his service.

Mort Luby Sr., my father, took over the Bowlers Journal when he was 28 years old.

Just under 100 years ago, a bowling institution was born on November 8, 1913.

Part 1 in former Bowlers Journal editor Mort Luby’s take on the magazine’s 100-year history.

BJI takes a retrospective look at all the winners of international bowling’s premier event.

Off the top of your head, can you name the six men and six women who made the Bowlers Journal All-American Teams 50 years ago? They’re some of the most famous names in bowling history, and in the August issue of BJI, they’re listed in the “Flashback” department, which traces the top tenpin stories of [...]

Let’s take a look back 50 years, when the event was called the ABC Tournament, and the pros were given the Classic Division.

Once each year, Bowlers Journal historian and “Time Capsule” columnist J.R. Schmidt shares “things I learned while looking up other things” with BJI readers. Here are some of those things that Schmidt learned this past year… * Angelina Jolie comes from a bowling family. “My mother was a Catholic schoolgirl raised in a Chicago bowling [...]

When bowling was rolling, Tommy Tuttle was as smooth as anything else down South.