In 1958, the American Bowling Congress still called itself the governing body of a national sport. By the time anyone thought to ask what that title actually meant in practice, the authority behind it had already shifted, to committees, to sponsors, to corporations that never announced the transfer. Nobody held a press conference. Nobody got fired. That’s the pattern this book is built on.

Digital ebook (PDF). Instant download after purchase, no physical item shipped.

What’s Inside

• The 1958 Split
• The Center That Used To Be an Alley
• ABC, WIBC, and the Merger That Wasn’t One
• Four Demotions Nobody Announced
• The Year ABC Let Go of the Tour
• AMF, Taken Apart
• How a League Dies Quietly
• Brunswick and AMF, Side by Side
• The Microsoft Money and the 2000 Sale
• The Modern Ledger