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Remembering state legend Vicki Vukovich

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 9:24 am
Remembering state legend Vicki Vukovich
<span id="gallery-cutline">Vicki Vukovich bowling at Olympic Lanes in 1983 -- the year she made the match play finals of a Ladies Professional Bowlers Tour event at age 69. </span>
I first saw Vicki Vukovich when I was just a teenager starting to bowl in top state bowling tourneys in the late 1970s. Already in her 60s, Vukovich was one of the legendary figures my bowling elders pointed out to me -- I've always been a bowling history junky and had a couple of folks I pestered on a regular basis. "Tell me about" him or her, I'd say when I'd see someone who seemed important....