Roy Buckley

Roy Buckley (1946 to 2021), of Westerville, Ohio, was an American right-handed ten-pin professional bowler and a member of the Professional Bowlers Association who bowled on the PBA Tour full time from 1970 to 1982. He won seven tournament titles, six of them in the 1970s, along with ten runner-up finishes and more than forty top-five appearances, and earned over 600,000 dollars in prize money. His first title was the 1971 Winston-Salem Open and his seventh and last the 1981 Greater Buffalo Sunkist Open, where he beat Earl Anthony 213-207 in the championship match. He was known as a consistent casher: from 1971 to 1978 only Buckley and Earl Anthony earned over 30,000 dollars in every season. In ABC Open Championships he won two Eagles, in 1975 and 1976, with the Munsingwear No. 2 team alongside Nelson Burton Jr., Barry Asher, Bud Horn and Norm Meyers. He entered the Ohio State USBC Hall of Fame in 1988 and the PBA Hall of Fame in 1992, and the USBC Hall of Fame posthumously in 2024.