Brunswick liked to reward good bowlers. The perfect games that earned these lapel pins might have been bowled on a lane featuring the newest in Brunswick technology.

Missouri has long been home to well-organized bowling. The Missouri State Bowling Proprietors’ Association likely circulated these pins to its members.

Myrtle Schulte of St. Louis, Missouri, was a mainstay of American women’s bowling for half a century. In 1931, she ran away with the singles and all-events titles at the Women’s International Bowling ...

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, played host to amateur athletes at the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1989, just one year after bowling made its Olympic debut at the Seoul Summer Games. Lapel pins commemorated the ...

AMF operated a number of international bowling centers including Cannington Lanes in Perth, Australia, and another in Moonah, Australia. Bowlers at the centers could celebrate their scores getting hig ...

Bowling was extremely popular in Chicago, particularly during the sport’s golden age. The Chicago Sun-Times honored a bowler with a 600 Club pin after scoring a 600 or higher in a three-series game. ...

The tiger mascot of the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, got in on the bowling trend, as the sport appeared on the Olympic stage for the first time that year. The International Olympic Committ ...

Rolling a 200 or above is definitely something to be proud of! Rosemount Bowl, likely a bowling center in Perth, Australia, produced this pin to highlight some lucky bowler’s scores. The more impressi ...

The Deutsche Kegler- und Bowlingbund (DKB) is the governing body for bowling in Germany and is a member of the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ). The organization dates back to 1884, meani ...

The 24th annual American Bowling Congress tournament in Chicago in 1924 saw a record-high 2,131 teams competing.