100 Years / by - August 26, 2013 11:35 am
BJI History Part 10 — Bowlers Journal’s Secret Weapon
Part 10 in a 12 part series from Mort Luby Jr. on the history of Bowlers Journal.
Category: 100 Years
A 12 part series from Mort Luby Jr. on the history of Bowlers Journal.
100 Years / by - August 26, 2013 11:21 am
BJI History Part 9 — Fawning Wasn’t Our Style
Part 9 in a 12 part series from Mort Luby Jr.
100 Years / by - May 30, 2013 12:24 pm
BJI History Part 8 — A Forum for Bowling Writers
BY MORT LUBY JR. IT BOTHERED ME FOR YEARS that there was so little contact among the writers who covered bowling’s burgeoning schedule of overseas tournaments. The Asian writers would…
100 Years / by - May 30, 2013 12:23 pm
BJI History Part 7 — Riding the Crest of Bowling’s Boom
BY MORT LUBY JR. AS THE INDUSTRY BOOMED in the late 1950s and early ’60s — largely because of widespread sales of automatic pinsetting machines and changing public perceptions about…
100 Years / by - May 30, 2013 12:19 pm
BJI History Part 6 — An Education in the Trenches
BY MORT LUBY JR. MORT LUBY SR. was a rabid Notre Dame football fan, a devout member of the famed Subway Alumni. When the subject of my own education came…
100 Years / by - March 5, 2013 3:33 pm
BJI History Part 5 — The Birth of the Bowlers Journal Tournament
Under the palms, a dream is born.
100 Years / by - March 5, 2013 3:26 pm
BJI History Part 4 — The Depression and Pet Projects
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.
100 Years / by - January 9, 2013 9:46 am
BJI History, Part 3 — Mort Sr., Frieda and Sam Weinstein
Mort Luby Sr., my father, took over the Bowlers Journal when he was 28 years old.
100 Years / by - December 4, 2012 4:09 pm
BJI History Part 2 — How It All Began on Nov. 8, 1913
Just under 100 years ago, a bowling institution was born on November 8, 1913.
