Elvin Mesger

Elvin Earl Mesger, born March 24, 1916 in Rosebud, Missouri, and died October 14, 2001 in Sullivan, Missouri, was an American bowler who held the American Bowling Congress record for 800-or-better series, with 15. He also held, until it was broken, the record for most sanctioned perfect games, with an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, rolling 27 between 1958 and 1974. He scored his 13th, 14th and 15th perfect games in a single day, a first for the ABC, and then rolled four more 300s in three weeks. From 1985 until the contest ended permanently in 2022, his name was often the subject of a question in the spring Almaniac World Trivia Contest based on The World Almanac and Book of Facts.