Long effort to merge associations at all levels complete, USBC says

In a perfect world, local and state men’s women’s and youth associations would have merged when their national counterparts the American Bowling Congress, Women’s International Bowling Congress, Young American Bowling Alliance, and USA Bowling did so on Jan. 1, 2005 to form the United States Bowling Congress. That clearly wasn’t politically possible at the time and it took years of effort and multiple conventions before USBC finally convinced its delegates to vote for a ...