Women’s bowling saw a surge in popularity generally in the mid-twentieth century, around the same time the American Junior Bowling Congress took off nationwide. The AJBC was open to both young men and ...

Exactly 22 years since it first hosted the event, Columbus, Ohio, welcomed “the country’s cutest keglers” to the Women’s International Bowling Congress in 1949. More than 2,500 five-woman teams attend ...

The 1949 BPAA All-Star Championship was held at the Northwest Armory in Chicago from December 3-11. Junie McMahon, who hailed from Chicago, beat out 167 male bowlers to claim the title with 13,712 pin ...