1958
Eddie Elias, Akron, Ohio, attorney, founded the PBA…there were 33 Founding Members…the first 100 persons in the organization were Charter Members.

1959
The PBA Tour started off with a bang with three tournaments worth $49,500...the first of many television shows is inaugurated with "Jackpot Bowling."

1960
Seven tournaments were held worth $150,000…"Make That Spare" poured more television money into PBA members pockets

1961
Eleven tournaments were held worth $250,000…the first televised showing of a PBA finals was instigated in the $75,000 National PBA Invitational at Paramus, N.J.

1962
Thirty-two tournaments were held worth $800,000…the Winter Tour finals went on the air for the first time on ABC-TV.

1963
Thirty-eight tournaments were held worth $1,000,000…"Make That Spare" was going strong and Don Carter made history, breaking the jackpot.

1964
Thirty-one tournaments were held worth $1,200,000…the PBA put another telecast on the air, the two-man bestball on CBS-TV.

1965
Thirty-one tournaments were held worth $1,300,000…Elias negotiated for the biggest tournament in the history of the game, the $100,000 Firestone Tournament of Champions in Akron, Ohio, home of the PBA…Elias also formed the Image Committee.

1966
Twenty-nine tournaments were held worth $1,500,000…Wayne Zahn earned $54,720 to break Don Carter's mark of $49,972 established in 1962…the PBA held a tournament in Caracas, Venezuela…Steve Nagy passed away.

1967
Thirty-four tournaments were held worth $1,600,000…Ebonite became a tournament sponsor along with Brut…Miller had been in for one year to raise the total of commercial sponsors to four…the PBA went into the new Madison Square Garden for the $70,000 National Championship…Jack Biondolillo rolled the first perfect game on live national television in the Firestone Tournament of Champions.

1968
35 tournaments were held worth $1,700,000…Lincoln-Mercury joined the growing field of commercial sponsors with the $75,000 Cougar Open in Kansas City…Jim Stefanich made history when he earned a record $67,375.

1969
Thirty-five tournaments were held worth $1,800,000…American Airlines and Bellows-Valvair joined the major tournament sponsors…Billy Hardwick set a new record by winning seven tournaments during the year…the first National Resident Professional Championship was held in Cincinnati.

1970
The PBA's 12th year saw the regional tournament program catch on, with 26 events…The Don Carter Classic was new…Bellows-Valvair co-sponsored four tournaments, while Firestone, Miller High Life, Lincoln-Mercury, Ebonite and American Airlines continued to sponsor major events.

1971
A Winter Tour that approached the $1,000,000 mark and an expanded regional program marked the PBA's 13th year…new sponsors were the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Andy Granatelli's STP organization…Lincoln-Mercury and Madison Square Garden joined to stage The Cougar Open…the Tour was enhanced further when the Brunswick Memorial World Open was established... 20 of the world's best foreign bowlers won their way to the World Open to compete against America's best pros for the $85,000 purse.

1972
The Firestone Tournament of Champions reached a new high as the price tag hit $125,000...Don Johnson and Nelson Burton Jr. battled it out for Bowler of the Year honors with Johnson finally winning out…the BPAA U.S. Open (which was contested in New York's Madison Square Garden) was a $100,000 event.

1973
The $125,000 Firestone Tournament of Champions rewarded the winner with $25,000…Madison Square Garden again hosted the BPAA U.S. Open…the Brunswick World Open became the second tournament on the Tour with the prize fund upped to $100,000…the Winter Tour prize money was up to $1,000,000…the regional program helped push membership to 1,000.

1974
The Winter Tour - biggest ever - offered no fewer than four tournaments with a value of at least $100,000…new to the slate were Midas and Cleveland Opens… in addition, the Winston-Salem Classic went to $100,000, as did the Showboat Invitational…the Firestone Tournament of Champions remained at $125,000…for a third straight year the BPAA U.S. Open was carded for New York's Madison Square Garden.

1975
The Winter Tour had a record 16 stops…The Copenhagen and Monroe Max-Air Opens were new to the Tour…the BPAA U.S. Open moved to Grand Prairie, Texas…Earl Anthony became the first man in PBA history to break the $100,000 mark in earnings, finishing the season with a record-tying seven national titles and winning $107,585…The Firestone Tournament of Champions remained the top goal for PBA membership which passed 1,300…the regional program continued making great progress, with 82 regional tournaments, an all-time high.

1976
All but three of the national tour stops were televised…AMF sponsored two $100,000 winter tournaments, as well as the Regional Champions Classic…Ford and Rolaids joined the list of major sponsors…Earl Anthony again set a record for earnings with $110,833…The BPAA U.S. Open returned to Texas for the second straight year…the Firestone Tournament of Champions was a $125,000 event.

1977
The 16-stop Winter Tour was aired on ABC television for the 16th consecutive year…Burger King, Consolidated Cigar and Quaker State joined the list of major sponsors…Miller increased the Miller High Life prize fund to $100,000 and added the $80,000 Lite Classic…Mark Roth tied a PBA record by winning three straight tournaments on the Summer Tour and became only the second man in PBA history to earn over $100,000 with winnings of $105,583…prize monies for the Winter Tour reached a record of nearly $1.5 million and membership reached an all-time high of 1,600.

1978
The Firestone and Burger King tournaments increased their prize monies to all-time highs of $150,000 with $30,000 top prizes in each…the Brunswick World Open and the Showboat Invitational also upped their price tag to $125,000… Miller Brewing Company sponsored two $100,000 tournaments - the Miller High Life Open and the Lite Classic…prize monies on the Winter Tour reached a record high of nearly $1.6 million, an average of nearly $100,000 per tournament…Pro Tour Qualifiers (PTQs), enabling more members to compete in tournaments of their choice, were expanded significantly…Mark Roth set records by winning eight titles and $134,500.

1979
The PBA was seen on national television more than ever before, with 33 of 34 national tournaments being televised…ABC-TV's Pro Bowlers Tour completed its 18th consecutive season…10 Summer Tour finals were aired on CBS Sports Spectacular…the new Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) showed five of six Fall Tour events…Firestone lent its name to a second tournament, the "721" Classic, to go along with the $150,000 Tournament of Champions…the BPAA raised the prize fund of its U.S. Open to $125,000… Showboat Hotel and Bowling Center sponsored the $125,000 Showboat PBA National Championship during the summer…Kessler Whiskey sponsored two events in the fall, the Kessler Open and the Kessler Classic…membership reached 2,000 by year's end.

1980
A 16-week Winter Tour featured another new sponsor, True Value Hardware, which sponsored a $125,000 event in Miami…Willie Willis became the first African-American to qualify for the Firestone Tournament of Champions by virtue of his victory in the 1979 Brunswick National Resident Pro Championship… Miller Brewing, AMF Magic-Score and Midas all raised their tournaments to the $125,000 level…The BPAA U.S. Open increased to a $131,000 tournament…the Showboat Invitational went to $135,000…ESPN telecast 12 Summer Tour, five Fall Tour events, and the Fair Lanes National Resident Pro Championship.

1981
The 20th season of ABC Sports "Professional Bowlers Tour" consisted of 21 events…the Summer Tour was telecast by ESPN…The PBA National Championship sported its largest prize fund, $135,000, second only to the $150,000 Firestone Tournament of Champions…Miller Brewing Company sponsored two events and also gave support to the first annual PBA Senior Championship at New Orleans…membership approached 2,500 by year's end… a seventh region was created by July and there were more than 100 members and five tournaments in 1981…the total money distributed in 96 regional tournaments was more than $1 million.

1982
The Firestone Tournament of Champions, a $200,000 event, boasted the top first prize on Tour - $40,000…the Toledo Trust PBA National Championship paid $38,000 of its $200,000 prize fund to the winner, Earl Anthony…that victory pushed Anthony's career earnings past the $1 million mark, making him the first PBA member to cross that barrier…PBA Tour went to Europe for the first time, and Tom Baker came back with the title in the AMF Grand Prix in Paris, France…for the first time, all Winter Tour prize funds were at least $100,000… USA Cable Network debuted as the network for the Summer and Fall Tours…AC-Delco joined the list of tournament sponsors by backing the $125,000 AC-Delco Classic on the Spring Tour.

1983
The 25th anniversary of the founding of the PBA was celebrated…the average winter prize fund was $136,875, a record…the Firestone Tournament of Champions and Trustcorp PBA National Championship had $200,000 prize funds and $40,000 and $38,000 first prizes, respectively…Showboat, Miller Brewing and True Value Hardware Stores each sponsored a $150,000 event…during the Winter Tour, True Value offered $50,000 to anyone rolling a 300 game on TV… for the first time, a Touring Players Championship was conducted on the Fall Tour.

1984
The total prize fund for the 16 winter stops was $2,370,000--an average of $148,125 weekly…the three tournaments that make up the "Triple Crown" of professional bowling--the Firestone Tournament of Champions, the Trustcorp PBA National Championship and the BPAA U.S. Open--featured $200,000 purses…the Showboat Invitational in Las Vegas increased its purse to $175,000…along with the first 16 stops, ABC covered five spring tournaments…USA Cable Network carried the 1984 Summer Tour…NBC Sports aired the Fall Tour events.

1985
True Value Hardware Stores offered an award of $100,000 to any player shooting a perfect game during the Winter Tour and $200,000 for any during the True Value Open…the Miller Brewing Company offered a $1 million bonus to any player winning all three Miller-sponsored tournaments…ESPN aired the 12 Summer Tour events…NBC aired six Fall Tour events, including the Kodak Invitational…Budweiser sponsored two tournaments…Mike Aulby broke Earl Anthony's single season money record of $164,735, and became the first bowler in PBA history to surpass $200,000 with $201,200.

1986
The Firestone Tournament of Champions featured a $50,000 first prize, the largest in PBA history…Miller Brewing Company again sponsored the $1 million Lite Slam and True Value Hardware Stores, offering $100,000 to any player who shot a perfect game during the championship finals…the Summer Tour was the richest ever, with the addition of Ebonite and Miller Brewing-sponsored tournaments…ESPN aired the Summer Tour…NBC televised the Fall Tour…total prize money for the year totaled $6.5 million.

1987
The year kicked off with the $500,000 Seagram's Coolers U.S. Open in Tacoma, Wash., the highest-paying tournament held on the Tour…it offered a $100,000 first prize…Pete McCordic earned the $100,000 True Value perfect game award when he notched the first 300 game on national television in 13 years…Miller Brewing added a year-long performance point bonus worth $50,000.

1988
In addition to the mega-buck "Triple Crown" tournaments, the Winter Tour added the $200,000 Don Carter's Greater New Orleans Classic to the schedule…Bob Benoit stunned the bowling world by rolling the first perfect game in a championship match to defeat Mark Roth, 300-255, for the Quaker State Open title…A & W sponsored the Pro Classic at Phoenix…"Make That Spare" returned to the airwaves with a pilot telecast in March…overall prize money for the national and regional tournaments exceeded $7.5 million…Brian Voss broke Mike Aulby's single season earnings record winning $225,485.

1989
The Seagram's Coolers U.S. Open led all prize funds with $500,000…$100,000 was earned by the winner…Pete Weber became the PBA's fourth millionaire, followed a few months later by Mike Aulby...Weber also became just the third player to win the "Triple Crown" after capturing the
Trustcorp PBA National Championship…Toyota sponsored their first tournament on the Fall Tour…total prize money for the year exceeded $8 million…Mike Aulby set a single-season earnings record with $298,237.

1990
The PBA welcomed Choice Hotels, Chevy Trucks and the American Bowling Congress as new sponsors…Amleto Monacelli won his second consecutive PBA Player of the Year honor and led a contingent of 11 players over the $100,000 mark…Cambridge sponsored the PBA/LPBT mixed doubles and Monacelli and Tish Johnson successfully defended their titles…Membership topped 3,500 by years' end.

1991
ABC-TV televised their 30th year of the Pro Bowlers Tour…Tums signed on to sponsor the Tums Classic at Windsor Locks, CT…the Johnny Petraglia Open was held in North Brunswick, N.J.…the Tour returned to Long Island…David Ozio became just the third bowler in PBA history to win the first two stops on the Winter Tour, joining Dick Weber and Don Johnson…John Mazza and Jess Stayrook joined Mark Roth as the only bowlers to convert the 7-10 split on television…the Senior Tour held 12 stops, an increase of 50% over 1990.

1992
Mike Connor was named Commissioner of the PBA succeeding Joe Antenora, the only other person to have held that title…Bud Light was the official beer of the PBA Tour and they sponsored the PBA National Championship and the Touring Players Championship…Firestone increased their sponsorship to $300,000…Kool Shootouts were held throughout the year at tournament sites…they featured winner-take-all one-game matches…Choice Hotels Summer Classic featured tournament champion, Amleto Monacelli, defeating Senior champion Gene Stus for the $25,000 bonus match….four more bowlers, Monacelli, Voss, Wayne Webb and Dave Husted topped the $1 million mark in earnings.

1993
The Winter Tour welcomed the IOF Foresters as a sponsor of the Bowling For Miracles Open in Toronto, Canada, and also featured the Bud Light Hall of Fame Championship, which was co-sponsored by the National Bowling Council…The Children's Miracle Network became the official charity of the PBA Tour…Kool Shootouts were increased to total prize money of $175,000 along the Tour... Senior Tour prize money increased to nearly $1.4 million with 14 tournaments…the PBA initiated a Millionaire Club poster featuring the first 10 Millionaires-- Earl Anthony, Mark Roth, Marshall Holman, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Wayne Webb, Dave Husted, Brian Voss, Amleto Monacelli, and Walter Ray Williams Jr…General Tire became the sponsor of the Tournament of Champions, replacing Firestone, who sponsored the event for the last 29 years.

1994
The PBA introduced "arena finals" at three separate tournament sites…the telecast of the championship round was moved from the bowling center to an arena setting where the finalists bowled on four specially installed lanes…the idea was first tried in Erie, Pa., and was a huge success as a capacity crowd of more than 5,000 fans showed up at the Erie Civic Center for the telecast... ABC-TV aired its 33rd consecutive season of the "Professional Bowlers Tour," with the familiar team of four-time Emmy Award winner Chris Schenkel and Nelson "Bo" Burton Jr., handling the commentary…the PBA Tour showcased record prize funds worth an average of almost $200,000 per tournament…ESPN televised the remaining summer and fall stops…boosting increased prize funds were AC-Delco, Showboat Hotel and Bowling Center, True Value Hardware, Brunswick Corp., the Independent Order of Foresters (IOF) and General Tire… new sponsors to the Tour were Sherwin-Williams, Hilton Hotels, and SplitFire Spark Plugs…the Senior Tour witnessed four televised stops.

1995
Mark Gerberich was named Commissioner of the PBA…the three arena finals in 1994 were so successful that eight tournaments in '95 put their championship rounds in arenas…a PBA record 7,212 fans attended the 1995 BPAA U.S. Open in Detroit's Joe Louis Arena…Dave D'Entremont led the Tour with eight television appearances…Mike Aulby, the top money winner with more than $215,000 in earnings, captured just one title, but made it a big one as he won the prestigious Brunswick World Tournament of Champions...the win made Aulby only the fourth player in PBA history to win bowling's Triple Crown, which includes the T of C, PBA National Championship and BPAA U.S. Open…Aulby also set a then single-season average record with his 225.49 mark.

1996
The PBA lost long-time Commissioner Joe Antenora…the PBA hosted 10 arena events in 1996…Mike Aulby captured the Bayer/Brunswick Touring Players Championship and became the only player to win the "Super Slam" (all four PBA "majors" and the ABC Masters)…Walter Ray Williams Jr. led the Tour in virtually every statistical category…Williams captured five titles and took over the title of PBA's all-time earnings leader….PBA Hall of Famer Earl Anthony returned to bowling after a five-year hiatus, winning the Naples Senior Open and cashing in every tournament he entered…the PBA also signed an exclusive three-year agreement with the Marquee Group, a sports marketing, television production and entertainment company in New York City, to serve as PBA's television representation and marketing partner…ACDelco agreed to a three-year $1 million sponsorship of a Tour stop in Lakewood, Calif.

1997
The popular "Pro Bowlers Tour" series on ABC-TV came to an end after 36 years…shortly thereafter, the PBA announced a new network contract with CBS Sports that guaranteed nine one-hour telecasts in 1998…earlier in the year the PBA announced a three-year agreement with ESPN that guaranteed a minimum of 14 events per year to be televised…Walter Ray Williams Jr. won the final tournament on ABC-TV…Williams also made history by becoming the first player to surpass the $2 million mark in career earnings…PBA Hall of Famer Gary Dickinson became the first Senior player to earn over $100,000 in a year… Ebonite sponsored four events and an "Ebonite Challenge" point list on the Fall Tour…Strike and Spare Fun Centers guaranteed a $1 million bonus for any player who rolled a 300 game during the title match of the Comfort Inn Classic...Steve Hoskins became the 11th player to roll a 300 game on national television…Brunswick agreed to a three-year, $3 million sponsorship package that includes sponsorship of three tournaments per year, official website sponsor and the development of the "Pro Pin."

1998
PBA Founder Eddie Elias passed away…Members competed for more than $4 million in prize money on the National Tour (26 tournaments), with events televised nationally on CBS Sports (nine events) and ESPN (eight)...during the 1998 season, both CBS Sports and ESPN agreed to two-year extensions with the PBA Tour through the year 2000…The Villages, a retirement community in Florida, reached an agreement to sponsor three 1999 events on the PBA Senior Tour, including the Senior Tournament of Champions…Brunswick added its sponsorship to the prestigious Senior National Tournament of Champions…Walter Ray Williams, Jr. won five titles and continued to be the Tour's all-time earnings leader with more than $2.3 million…Parker Bohn III became just the 12th player in PBA history to roll a televised 300 game…on the Senior Tour, Pete Couture collected $117,300…he also set a Senior Tour record with four wins.

1999
Players competed for more than $4.125 million in prize money…Steve Jaros rolled the 13th televised perfect game in PBA championship round history…the PBA Tour was broadcast on network television for the 38th consecutive year, as CBS Sports carried the Tour's 10-week summer swing…CBS' coverage was highlighted by Eric Forkel's win in the New York City PBA Experience, the PBA's first-ever outdoor final in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan…Mike Miller rolled the 14th televised 300 game in PBA history…the new eight-man format will be employed in 2000 in championship finals…Parker Bohn III led the Tour in earnings with $232,595…senior bowler Dale Eagle won a record-tying four titles…Johnny Petraglia became the last man in the 20th century and the 20th player in PBA history to eclipse the $1 million mark in career earnings.

2000
The PBA is purchased in April by former Microsoft executives Chris Peters, Mike Slade and Rob Glaser…the new owners turn the PBA into a for-profit business…in September Ian Hamilton and Steve Miller are hired as the Commissioner and President, respectively…each worked for several years in the global sports marketing department at Nike…the five-man, stepladder format returns for the Fall Tour television shows…Chris Barnes went 0-12 in television appearances in 2000, but lead in every statistical category except earnings and wins…Jason Couch won his second consecutive Tournament of Champions…Ryan Shafer broke his streak of most career earnings without a win (14 years), when he won two… Bob Learn Jr. became the 21st player to break $1 million in career earnings.

2001-02
Several changes took place to bring the PBA back to life…after completing nine tournaments from January through June 2001, the PBA announced a set season (September - March) with a prize fund for 20 tournaments just over $4 million…the 140% increase over the previous year included a guaranteed $40,000 first prize for every standard tournament and $100,000 for major tournaments…the exception was the PBA World Championship (formerly the PBA National Championship) where the first place winner took home $120,000…the PBA signed a three-year (with a three year option) exclusive deal with ESPN and established a more consistent programming schedule…ESPN produced and aired thousands of PBA promotional spots that helped lead to an 18% increase in television ratings…after years of decline the PBA also saw a strong increase in membership (+25%) and tournament entries (+35%)…Parker Bohn III, with five titles, was named PBA Player of the Year…Tommy Jones outshone all other newcomers and became the PBA's Rookie of the Year…Staging an animated comeback was Pete Weber who had a memorable televised 299 that helped the PBA get regular results broadcast on SportsCenter. He went on to win the ESPY for Bowler of the Year… Ernie Schlegel and Jason Couch were the 22nd and 23rd to break the $1 million mark in career earnings.

2002-03
The PBA continued down the road to success…Fred Schreyer was named PBA Commissioner in March 2003…The PBA signed 13 new corporate sponsors: Banquet, Bayer, Cambridge Credit, Days Inn, Dexter, Geico Direct, Jackson Hewitt Tax Service, Miller Brewing Company (Miller High Life and Miller Lite), Odor-Eaters, Pep Boys, Pepsi, Storm and VIA Bowling…PBA membership topped 4,000 for the first time in history… ESPN TV ratings increased for the second consecutive season (+6%) and the 18-34 male demographic increased by 43%... tournament entries also increased by 14%... Walter Ray Williams Jr. won his sixth PBA Player of the Year Award, tying Earl Anthony for the all-time mark…Williams also shattered the single-season earnings record ($298,237 set by Mike Aulby in 1989) with $419,700…He also became the first player to top $3 million in career earnings…Jason Couch became the first player to three-peat in the PBA Tournament of Champions (1999, 2000 & 2002)…Norm Duke rolled the 15th televised 300 game in PBA history at the Geico Earl Anthony Classic (Tacoma, Wash.)… Earlier in the season at the Cambridge Credit Classic (Syosset, NY), Duke defeated David Traber in the closest title match ever, winning on the third, one-ball roll off (9-9, 10-10, 10-9) after tying at 245-245…Randy Pedersen and Danny Wiseman became the 24th and 25th players to top $1 million in career earnings.

2004-05
The PBA Tour entered its first season with the brand new exempt format which featured a 64-bowler field for each standard event, including 58 full-time exempt bowlers…the PBA had 17 sponsors, including newcomers Denny's and Motel 6…the PBA on ESPN set records in average rating (.91), average households (816,961) and average viewers (1,067,705) since the new PBA ownership took over in 2000…the season began with the finals of the 2004 PBA Miller High Life Masters presented by the American Bowling Congress being bowled in Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers…Liz Johnson made history by becoming the first female to qualify for a PBA Tour event in the 2004 PBA Uniroyal Tire Classic…she later became the first female to appear in a PBA Tour nationally televised event when she finished 2nd in the 2005 PBA Banquet Open in Wyoming, Mich…Walter Ray Williams Jr. became just the second bowler to reach the 40-title plateau with his 2004 PBA Uniroyal Tire Classic victory in Wickliffe, Ohio…a week after the regular season ended, Chris Barnes won the $200,000 top prize in the PBA Motel 6 Roll to Riches presented by GEICO, the richest grand prize in history.

2005-06
Denny's signs a three-year, multi-million dollar deal prior to the start of the season to become the Tour's first-ever title sponsor… The PBA Tour becomes the Denny's PBA Tour… ESPN features more PBA programming than ever, with a new special event airing on Christmas day, "The Final Frame presented by the Denny's PBA Tour," as well as the second seasons of the PBA Skills Challenge and the Motel 6 Roll to Riches… The Tour adds a special 22nd event to the schedule, the Dick Weber Open, which uses a "throwback" format in honor of the late PBA Hall of Famer... Jackson Hewitt Tax Service announces the "Jackson Hewitt $1 Million Dollar Challenge," offering $1 million to any bowler who can win the final three Majors of the season… Tommy Jones becomes the face of the promotion after winning his first career Major in the 63rd U.S. Open, but he fails to win the final two Majors… Jones goes on to win four titles for the second consecutive season, becoming the first bowler to win at least eight titles over two seasons since Parker Bohn III in 1998-99… In his seventh attempt at tying Earl Anthony's all-time titles record, Walter Ray Williams Jr. finally wins his 41st title in grand fashion, defeating Pete Weber for the title in the 2006 Denny's World Championship, earning $100,000 and a four-season Tour exemption… 23-year-old rookie Sean Rash becomes the first non-exempt bowler to win a title, going from the Denny's PBA Tour Qualifying Round to PBA champion in the 2006 West Virginia Championship… Chris Barnes once again takes home the richest grand prize in PBA history, winning the winner-take-all $200,000 Motel 6 Roll to Riches for the second year in a row… Eric Forkel and Mike Edwards become the PBA's 32nd and 33rd millionaires... TV ratings in the male 18-34 demographic increase by 12.5 percent… Tournament entries increase by 19.7%... Membership reaches an all-time high of 4,300 at season's end... Kelly Kulick becomes the first woman to earn a full-season exemption on Tour when she finishes sixth in the 2006 Denny’s PBA Tour Trials.

2006-07
The PBA Tour’s 48th season starts off with a bang as Walter Ray Williams Jr. breaks the Tour’s all-time titles record, earning win No. 42 over Pete Weber in the Dydo Japan Cup... For the first time since 1999 the season saw two televised 300 games as Tony Reyes fires the 17th perfect game en route to his first career title in the 2006 Motor City Classic while Ryan Shafer’s fires No. 18 in the 2007 Pepsi Championship... Doug Kent makes history by winning the 2006 USBC Masters and the 2007 Denny’s World Championship making him just the sixth bowler in history to win two Majors in a season... Two bowlers made historic debuts as Kelly Kulick and Billy Oatman become the Tour’s first-ever exempt female and African-American, respectively, under the Tour’s all-exempt format... A record is set for Denny’s PBA Tour Qualifying Round entries as 147 bowlers attempt to qualify for the 2007 Pepsi Championship at Woodland Bowl in Indianapolis... Denny’s, the PBA and the United States Bowling Congress team up to present the inagural Denny’s All-American High School Championships featuring 29 of the best high school bowlers (14 boys, 15 girls) in an event which ran in conjunction with the Denny’s World Championship... The event airs tape-delayed on ESPN... ESPN also continues to air special PBA programming throughout the Tour season and the off-season, including the third annual Motel 6 Roll to Riches, won by Doug Kent, and the PBA Skills Challenge, which featured a new doubles format, won by Kent and Danny Wiseman... The PBA and USBC announce a special summer series, The PBA All-Star Shootout Hosted by Six Flags which features 16 PBA stars competing in a special made-for-TV doubles event which airs throughout the summer on ESPN... The PBA and USBC also announce a PBA Women’s Series which will feature a 16-woman exempt field competing in four events running concurrrently with Denny’s PBA Tour events in 2007-08... New PBA sponsors including Columbia 300, Discover® Card, Etonic, Flomax, Go RVing and H&R Block... The PBA Senior Tour features 13 events in 2007, up from nine in 2006, including the return of the PBA Ladies and Legends.