Don Carter

Don Carter was a right-handed American professional bowler born in St. Louis, Missouri, who learned the game as a boy working as a pinsetter. He became one of the legends of ten-pin bowling and was a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association in 1958. Known simply as Mr. Bowling, he was six times bowler of the year and a ten-time All-American, and a 1970 Bowling Magazine poll voted him the greatest bowler of all time. At the front of celebrity endorsement, he became the first athlete of any kind to earn a million dollars from a single endorsement deal, with Ebonite International. He and fellow St. Louis native Dick Weber are widely regarded as professional bowling's first superstars.