If you gathered a group of bowling “experts” in a room and asked them to list the 10 greatest shotmakers of the last 50 years, the odds would be overwhelming that Norm Duke would be on every list — and probably up high.
There is nothing he hasn’t done with a bowling ball, winning on the PBA Tour from one gutter to the other, with a sweeping hook and nearly a straight ball, on high- and low-scoring conditions, and with almost every type of bowling ball.
Even at 53, Duke...