Steve Cook (bowler)

Steve Cook (born 1957) is a retired left-handed American ten-pin bowler who competed on the Professional Bowlers Association Tour and was known as its largest physical specimen, standing 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 metres) tall. He won his first PBA Tour title at 22 in the 1979 Ford Open and finished his career with 15 titles, among them the 1981 Firestone Tournament of Champions, the 1983 Touring Players Championship and the 1986 U.S. Open, plus four titles in 1986 alone. Three of those wins came in the Showboat Doubles Classic with his brother-in-law and fellow Hall of Famer Mike Aulby. He was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 1993, named number 25 on the PBA's 2008 list of the 50 greatest players of the last 50 years, and elected to the USBC Hall of Fame in 2014. After retiring he built a bowling supply business and now owns Fireside Lanes in Citrus Heights, California.