Carmen Salvino
Encyclopedia
Carmen Salvino is a professional ten-pin
bowler and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association
(PBA). Salvino won 17 PBA Tour titles –- among them the 1962 PBA National Championship. He also won two PBA Senior Tour titles, including the 1984 Senior National Championship. The right-handed bowler was among the eight original inductees to the PBA Hall of Fame in 1975, and is also a member of the USBC
Hall of Fame (inducted 1979), the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
(inducted 1985), the Illinois Sports Hall of Fame, and the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame.
Salvino now resides in Schaumburg, IL (USA), and has remained active in various capacities of the PBA -- including ambassador, executive board, and tournament committee positions, as well as one term as PBA president (1985-86).
Despite all his victories, Salvino listed a loss to his good friend Dick Weber
in the finals of the 1988 PBA Showboat Senior Invitational among his most memorable tournaments. Although both Salvino and Weber were original PBA members when the organization was founded in 1958, the two had never met in a televised match until this 1988 tour stop.
Salvino has made a number of memorable marks on the sport of bowling throughout his seven decades (1950s-2011): champion, Hall-of-Famer, showman and entertainer, bowling ball scientist in the areas of physics and chemistry, bowling ambassador, as well as bowling health enthusiast.
During the 1970s, Salvino claimed to have based his bowling style on a mathematical equation, of which he never revealed. The equation covered the bowling stance and ball delivery that stressed accuracy.
Salvino was ranked #17 on the PBA's 2008 list of "50 Greatest Players of the last 50 years."
Ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling is a competitive sport in which a player rolls a bowling ball down a wooden or synthetic lane with the objective of scoring points by knocking down as many pins as possible.-Summary:The lane is bordered along its length by semicylindrical channels Ten-pin bowling (commonly just...
bowler and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association
Professional Bowlers Association
The Professional Bowlers Association is the major sanctioning body for the sport of professional ten-pin bowling in the United States. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the PBA membership consists of almost 4,300 members worldwide...
(PBA). Salvino won 17 PBA Tour titles –- among them the 1962 PBA National Championship. He also won two PBA Senior Tour titles, including the 1984 Senior National Championship. The right-handed bowler was among the eight original inductees to the PBA Hall of Fame in 1975, and is also a member of the USBC
United States Bowling Congress
The United States Bowling Congress is a sports membership organization dedicated to ten-pin bowling in the United States. It was formed in 2005 by a merger of the American Bowling Congress, Women's International Bowling Congress, Young American Bowling Alliance, and USA Bowling...
Hall of Fame (inducted 1979), the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
The National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame is a nonprofit institution honoring exceptional U.S. athletes of Italian descent. Since its founding in 1977, more than 200 Italian Americans have been inducted into this hall of fame....
(inducted 1985), the Illinois Sports Hall of Fame, and the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame.
Salvino now resides in Schaumburg, IL (USA), and has remained active in various capacities of the PBA -- including ambassador, executive board, and tournament committee positions, as well as one term as PBA president (1985-86).
Despite all his victories, Salvino listed a loss to his good friend Dick Weber
Dick Weber
Dick Weber was a famous bowling professional and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association...
in the finals of the 1988 PBA Showboat Senior Invitational among his most memorable tournaments. Although both Salvino and Weber were original PBA members when the organization was founded in 1958, the two had never met in a televised match until this 1988 tour stop.
Salvino has made a number of memorable marks on the sport of bowling throughout his seven decades (1950s-2011): champion, Hall-of-Famer, showman and entertainer, bowling ball scientist in the areas of physics and chemistry, bowling ambassador, as well as bowling health enthusiast.
During the 1970s, Salvino claimed to have based his bowling style on a mathematical equation, of which he never revealed. The equation covered the bowling stance and ball delivery that stressed accuracy.
Salvino was ranked #17 on the PBA's 2008 list of "50 Greatest Players of the last 50 years."
Resources
- www.pba.com, official website of the Professional Bowlers Association and the PBA Tour
- Carmen Salvino's daughter Corinne Miller