Steve Hoskins

Steve Hoskins, born in 1969 and originally from Woburn, Massachusetts, is a retired professional ten-pin bowler who belonged to the Professional Bowlers Association. He started bowling at age four after his family moved to Tarpon Springs, Florida, joined the PBA Tour in 1989 and was named Rookie of the Year that season. His first title came at the 1993 Quaker State Open, which he defended in 1994, and he went on to win ten PBA Tour titles in eight seasons, including the 1997 Bayer/Brunswick Touring Players Championship and the same event again in 1999. In 1997 he rolled the twelfth televised 300 game in PBA history, in a semifinal against Walter Ray Williams Jr. He served as PBA president in 2003, retired after the 2004 season, made a brief comeback on the PBA50 Tour in 2019, and was inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 2017.