Mort Luby Jr. to receive 2012 Alberta Crowe Meritorious Service Award
03/29/12
The man whose name is synonymous with excellence and vision in bowling journalism is the recipient of this year's Bowling Writers Association of America (BWAA) Alberta Crowe Meritorious Service Award.
Mort Luby Jr., former publisher of Bowlers Journal International and founder of the World Bowling Writers, is being recognized for his long-term accomplishments in and for the sport of bowling through these and other media.
Luby is the grandson of Dave Luby, who founded the National Bowlers Journal in 1913. He assumed command of the magazine, then known as Bowlers Journal, in 1956 upon the death of his father, Mort Sr., and remained publisher and editor until selling the publication in 1994.
During those 38 years, Luby transformed the publication from a collection of league and tournament reports highlighted with celebrity profiles into the No. 1 monthly consumer and trade publication for the industry.
He introduced an annual Almanac (January), an International edition (September), a Bowling Center Architecture and Design Awards edition (November), and an auxiliary Buyers Guide, among other innovations.
A journalism graduate from the University of Notre Dame, Luby also won numerous industry awards for his own editorial commentary and reporting over the decades. The latter includes more than 40 years of covering national and international bowling championships as a stringer for the Associated Press.
One of his favorite international scoops was breaking the news to Associated Press that the 1993 AMF Bowling World Cup was headed to South Africa, which was then still a pariah in the international sports community because of its apartheid government.
Luby's involvement with international bowling led him to create the World Bowling Writers (WBW) in 1977 to help bowling journalists share information and promote the sport in their own countries. He was also a driving force in creating the WBW International Bowling Hall of Fame to recognize the sport's greats in all four corners of the globe.
His name graces the WBW's Distinguished Service Award.
Although retired, Luby continues to promote bowling as an accomplished artist, interpreting its history via watercolor and oil paintings.
Luby, 80, a member of the United States Bowling Congress and Professional Bowlers Association Halls of Fame, lives in Carpentersville, Ill., with his wife, Patricia.
BWAA Awards
The man whose name is synonymous with excellence and vision in bowling journalism is the recipient of this year's Bowling Writers Association of America (BWAA) Alberta Crowe Meritorious Service Award.Mort Luby Jr., former publisher of Bowlers Journal International and founder of the World Bowling Writers, is being recognized for his long-term accomplishments in and for the sport of bowling through these and other media.
Luby is the grandson of Dave Luby, who founded the National Bowlers Journal in 1913. He assumed command of the magazine, then known as Bowlers Journal, in 1956 upon the death of his father, Mort Sr., and remained publisher and editor until selling the publication in 1994.
During those 38 years, Luby transformed the publication from a collection of league and tournament reports highlighted with celebrity profiles into the No. 1 monthly consumer and trade publication for the industry.
He introduced an annual Almanac (January), an International edition (September), a Bowling Center Architecture and Design Awards edition (November), and an auxiliary Buyers Guide, among other innovations.
A journalism graduate from the University of Notre Dame, Luby also won numerous industry awards for his own editorial commentary and reporting over the decades. The latter includes more than 40 years of covering national and international bowling championships as a stringer for the Associated Press.
One of his favorite international scoops was breaking the news to Associated Press that the 1993 AMF Bowling World Cup was headed to South Africa, which was then still a pariah in the international sports community because of its apartheid government.
Luby's involvement with international bowling led him to create the World Bowling Writers (WBW) in 1977 to help bowling journalists share information and promote the sport in their own countries. He was also a driving force in creating the WBW International Bowling Hall of Fame to recognize the sport's greats in all four corners of the globe.
His name graces the WBW's Distinguished Service Award.
Although retired, Luby continues to promote bowling as an accomplished artist, interpreting its history via watercolor and oil paintings.
Luby, 80, a member of the United States Bowling Congress and Professional Bowlers Association Halls of Fame, lives in Carpentersville, Ill., with his wife, Patricia.
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