Our Beginnings

Keith Spear started in 1981 by opening his first pro shop in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. We then moved our main location in 1982 to Deltona, Florida. We opened our third store in Deland, Florida in 1984. From 1985-1991 we conducted services pertaining to the operations of professional tournaments for the Ladies Pro Bowlers Tour. Our next pro shop was opened in 1992 in Daytona Beach, Florida. In 1996 we purchased our first domain name, bowlingball.com and began to envision the future of bowling utilizing the Internet. Our Deltona Pro Shop opened in 2001 and our Ormond Pro Shop opened in 2002. Since 2002 we have added an additional five pro shops within the state of Florida.

bowlingball.com in 2010

It has now been 13 years since we first started on the Internet and 29 years since we opened our first pro shop. We have grown from our humble beginnings to become the largest online retailer of bowling equipment in the world. At first, we simply worked out of our over crowded pro shops, and then when storage became a problem we rented a storage unit near our largest pro shop. We then rented another and then another storage unit until we had over 25 storage units. We consolidated our operations in August of 2002 moving to an 11,000 square foot warehouse housing over a million dollars worth of inventory. As of August 2010 we are now in a 33,000 square foot facility and carry over three million dollars in inventory. We are very thankful to say that we have serviced over 7,000,000 bowlers. We not only carry the complete bowling industry line but have expanded to reintroducing lines, such as Quantum. We also carry hard to find Pro Pins and Pro CG's, once only available to touring professionals. We also currently have the largest private line of Brunswick Viz A Balls in the country. We currently make and distribute exclusive products such as: Disney's Tinkerbell, Spiderman, Support our Troops, Official Jonathan Earl Bowser Angel bowling balls, The Money Ball, The Barb Wire, Monster Jam's Grave Digger, and Mini Viz A Ball Awards, along with many others. Our success is achieved by fulfilling our mission statement, along with the fact that we strive to have fun every day with what we do.

Our mission is to be the bowling web site that provides community, content and commerce. How we pursue our mission is influenced by a set of core values. Honesty, integrity, and customer service are the principles that direct how we service our customers, the ideals that drive what we do and how we do it. We strive to achieve these high standards daily. We strive daily to fulfill our commitment to make our website the place where bowlers go.

We strive to provide a great service to our customers. We are proud to say that more often than not, our customers end up very satisfied with their purchase. Some go the extra mile to let us know they are happy, and we would like to share their comments with you.

We have collected our customer's testimonials over time. If you would like to add one, please leave it in the comments below.

If you would like to read testimonials from customers who have used our professional custom drilling service, please visit our Professional Custom Drilling Testimonials Section.

We only offer top quality products, no hidden handling fees, and your package is ALWAYS Insured.

All photos used on our website are stock. The actual image may vary in color or shading depending on your monitor settings. Swirl patterns will vary from item to item.

Although we do our best to represent our product descriptions, inventory levels and prices fairly, we do make mistakes. In these cases, we reserve the right to cancel any order and refund the customer's money as a full remedy.