Acknowledgments -- Preface -- A (Very) Short History of Bowling -- Mort the Moose -- Long John Koster -- El Zunko -- Magnificent Marino -- The Perfect Game -- Eddie Kawolics and Me -- The Old Sarge -- Uncanonized Saint -- An Interview with Jimmy Blouin -- The Prince of Bowlers -- Professor Krumske -- The Legend of Junie Mcmahon -- Days to 300 -- The Flying Falstaffs -- Bowling's Cinema Verite -- That's Shaul, Folks! -- Nobody's Buddy -- Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things -- Belle of the Ball -- The Joker is Wild -- The Patriotic Bowling Tournament -- The Greatest Team Match -- Bowling's Landmark Tour -- Don Carter: an Appreciation -- A Dream in Detroit -- The Original Perfect Man -- Soldier's Story -- Famous Nicknames -- The Infamous 5/7/10 -- Fabulous Faetz-Niesen -- How Jimmy Smith Became Champ -- The Big Three Bowlers Tour -- Where Have You Gone, Morrie Oppenheim? -- How We Learned to Love the 10-Pin -- Weighty Bowlers -- More Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things -- The First ABC Tournament -- Joe Norris, R.I.P -- Style and Substance -- Brunswick or AMF? -- Billy G -- Jerry Lewis Goes Bowling -- Church Alleys -- The Stuff of Dreamer -- Beware the Count! -- The Buds Shoot 3858 -- Gibby's Big Jackpot -- Bowling's Defining Moment -- Time For a Bowling Postage Stamp? -- I Remember Billy Welu -- The First National Tournament -- Strange Inventions -- Dick Weber, R.I.P -- Candy Mac -- The Baseball-Bowling Connection -- The Buzzer -- Unusual Injuries -- The Quiet Man -- Pioneer Don Scott -- The Hitchhikers -- The greatest Action Match -- The Fred Wolf Story -- Big Steve -- Johnny Small's Magic Ball -- Two Secure Records -- Movie Star Bowler -- A Christmas Story -- Who was Ned Day? -- Ed Lubanski's Double 300 -- Andy Varipapa Stories -- Earl Breaks Through -- The Petersen Classic Turns 100 -- All Hail, Lady L! -- The Bowling Ball that Went Around the World -- Even More Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things -- In Search of Johnny King -- A Different Path -- Uncle Joe -- Bowler's Symphony -- Chief Halftown -- The Schalk Team Tournament -- Billy Hardwick, R.I.P -- The Longest Longshots -- The Man in the Picture -- Allie and Orf and Allison and Some Others -- The National Bowling League -- Billy Durant's Bowling Fling -- The Shanghai Bowling Congress -- The Pleasure of His Company -- Undefeated Champion -- Index.