Mike Berlin

Mike Berlin, born on December 24, 1943, and from Muscatine, Iowa, is a retired right-handed professional ten-pin bowler who competed on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour from 1976 to 1982. He was named PBA Rookie of the Year in 1976 and won five PBA Tour titles, one of them a major, the 1977 Firestone Tournament of Champions. The other wins were the 1976 AMF Regional Champions Classic, the 1977 Quad Cities Open, the 1977 Buzz Fazio Open and the 1978 Columbia-PBA Doubles Classic with Jimmy Certain. He entered the Iowa State Bowling Hall of Fame in 1982 and in 1994 became the first Iowa-based bowler inducted into the USBC Hall of Fame. In 2021 a PBA Midwest Regional event in Muscatine was named in his honor.