Bowling Week hopes to lure occasional bowlers into leagues
Submitted on August 21, 2006 - 12:00am.
A.N. Hernández - Summer 2006
Let's face it. The number of people bowling in leagues is not what it once was. But open play, or just-for-fun bowling, is all the rage.
At the peak of league bowling, in 1979 and 1980, about 9 million adults and youths were league members. Now there are about 3 million. That's a 3 to 6 percent decrease every year for the past 25 years, and the United States Bowling Congress has taken note.
It's a sign of the times, Mark Miller, the group's spokesman, said.
“Lifestyles of Americans have changed in the last years. More women work out of the home, and one of the big things in the 1950s and 1960s were the daytime women's leagues,” Miller said.
At the peak of league bowling, in 1979 and 1980, about 9 million adults and youths were league members. Now there are about 3 million. That's a 3 to 6 percent decrease every year for the past 25 years, and the United States Bowling Congress has taken note.
It's a sign of the times, Mark Miller, the group's spokesman, said.
“Lifestyles of Americans have changed in the last years. More women work out of the home, and one of the big things in the 1950s and 1960s were the daytime women's leagues,” Miller said.
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