Don McCune

Don McCune was an American right-handed ten-pin bowler, born Donald Eugene McCune on 9 October 1936 in Morrison, Illinois, who died on 28 February 2026. He bowled in the Professional Bowlers Association from 1963 and won eight PBA Tour titles, six of them in the 1973 season, when he was named PBA Player of the Year. That season he became known for soaking a hard plastic ball in a chemical solvent so that it would hook more on the hard lane finishes of the time, a practice that spread across the tour and led to new PBA and ABC rules about altering ball surfaces. He entered the PBA Hall of Fame in 1991 and the USBC Hall of Fame in 2013, and his son Eugene and grandson Kevin also won PBA titles.