Professor's Credentials

Ed Signoretti has had a most interesting and diverse background in the game of bowling. He began in a large billiard establishment “Paul Doyle’s” in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, where he was born and brought up. They had about 40 pool tables and six bowling alleys (that is what they were called in those days). At that time bowling alleys had neither semi nor automatic bowling machines. All was done in the back by a pin boy. The lanes were there because pool was so popular that many times one had to wait for a pool table to open up to play. Therefore the men bowled while waiting for a pool table. Mister Doyle had many young boys working on setting up racks as the players required and a few set up pins when needed. Ed was one who did both at the tender age 13; at that time one could get part time working papers at that age. He received six cents per game that he set up the pins for and returned the ball. Hence his introduction to bowling occurred. At slow times or before starting work he would bowl as many games as he could with a friend who set up the pins; then Ed set the pins up for the friend while he bowled. He bowled as much as he could wherever he could.

The next time Ed got involved seriously in bowling was when he got married and moved to Lindenhurst Long Island and bowled at Werner’s Bowling Alley’s (that was what they were called at that time). They had ten lanes and proceeded to be the first installation of AMF Pin Setters on long Island. Ed bowled there and many other centers as time progressed and was the first to bowl a match of 100 games nonstop with Al Werner’s son. This was written up and all through the day and the night coming and going spectators were present.

After that period Ed bowled in many of the tournaments that were available and won the Tournament of Champions the third year of its inception. His bowling career prior to the PBA’s beginning was primarily local in the tri-state area. He bowled on the Pabst Blue Ribbon team bowling out of Paramus Lanes. However, his teaching bowling took a substantial amount of time and did not allow him to continue competing professionally.

He is the originator of the “Bowler Development Program” leading to the “Ladies Learn to Bowl Course” that spent its first ten years developing many ladies daytime bowing leagues in the Tri-State area including Pennsylvania. Literally he contracted most of the bowling centers in Long Island and NY; and a substantial amount in Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It was there that he taped the first “Learn to Bowl” Television Show called “Bowling Made Easy by Ed Signoretti” there were 12 weeks taped and played in many of the states that he was appearing in during his LTB shows. He did his shows in most if not all of the 49 states missing only Alaska. He ran LTB shows to ladies audiences of over 550 in 72 lane bowling centers one particularly, Cane Run Lanes in Louisville, Kentucky. Naturally the same shows were ran in smaller centers with audiences of 100 plus.

At one specific time he had over 400 telephone operators and over 250 instructors working for him in twenty bowling centers simultaneously. He flew from NY to California one week end and California back to NY on the next week end; then while in each area, flew almost every one of the 5 week days to a different State and bowling centers. He did continue this rate of shows for two years. However to be honest he had one week of flying off from every five. The reason California was his point of arrival each week was because he was called and contracted almost every bowling center in California. He assisted some of the largest bowling chains such as AMF and Brunswick in addition to the many others that existed at that time.

In his over to 45 years of involvement in the bowling industry from bowling professionally to conducting bowling shows; our best estimates are that he hosted over one million ladies and developed over 500 thousand into daytime leagues; in addition to the many other charity events, in the early years he worked closely with the AJBC (American Junior Bowling Congress). As a City Instructor he trained and certified many Junior Bowling Instructors and developed Junior Coaches to further the introduction of bowling to children. He conducted numerous Junior bowling programs, throughout the metropolitan area of NYC and Long Island. He also conducted mixed evening classes in many of the bowling centers that he contracted.

Mr. Signoretti’s presentation is considered the best in the nation. He is concise and very technical; however, at the same time he projects basic understanding. His teaching methods and techniques are most advanced yet stable and dependable, for they are built around years of practical experienced. In short he makes sense and all understand, why they are doing, what they are doing, in addition to how to do it. He catered to the beginner as well as the average bowlers, to the higher average bowlers, all the way to the pro’s; with wide praise from all.

He was a charter member of the M.A.P.B.A. (Mid Atlantic Professional Bowlers Association); President of the Professional Bowling Instructors Association; Author of the Bowler Improvement Plan; and involved in many organizations as a bowler and more prominently as a National Professional Bowling Instructor and many other lesser titles and achievements.

All in all we might say that he has 50 years of experience in bowling second to none in achievements and involvements. These are excellent credentials for his ability to (as he says it) “answer any question you can put to me about bowling”.

And now, Ed Signoretti is: Thebowlingprofessor.com