About

In March 2007, John Williams invited 40 people out to Village Lanes to try and start a bowling league.

We had the Splitzkrieg name, 10 teams, no rulebook, and we scheduled by telling people the next league night would be in three or four weeks and we’d let them know. You could still smoke in the alley, but it was considered polite to stand back a bit, instead of smoking right there at the seats. We started at 7:15 and a large chunk of the league went out drinking after bowling, because time didn’t work the same way. Mirla del Rosario bowled the league’s first 200 game at the end of the season and there was no end of season party.

Nineteen years later - 6 of those original 10 teams are still in the league, 13 of the bowlers that showed up that first night have bowled with us in the past year, and we’ve knocked down over 9 million pins. Lots more history and stories to discuss, including some that I rediscovered when working through this data, but those will have to wait.

I’ve been planning to make this site since 2009, and it only took me 17 years and a bit of unemployment to get to it - boom. There’s a lot of information packed in here - go digging and see what you can find. Send me any errors you find or any suggestions you have and I’ll keep building this out. Your job is to keep coming out to the lanes when you can - now you can see all the bowlers that are going to pass you by on the all-time lists if you don’t.

Deep thanks to James Hepler, Paul Marsh, Kristin Pearson, Chris Klindt, John Bekas, and many more of you who help this thing keep rolling in all kinds of ways.

And to Village Lanes, for being the star of the show for all those years.