Lou Campi (1905-1989) was a professional bowler. He was known as Wrong Foot Louie, a reference to the fact that, unusually for a right-handed bowler, he completed his delivery on his right foot. Campi was born in

Verona, Italy Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in north ...

. In the 1940s, he was a successful television bowler. He won the first ever event on the

PBA Tour The PBA Tour is the major professional tour for ten-pin bowling, operated by the Professional Bowlers Association. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, over 3,000 members worldwide make up the PBA. While most of the PBA members are Regional profess ...

: the 1959 Empire State PBA Open. At age 54, he is still the third oldest player to win a PBA Tour title. Campi was also a multiple-time national doubles champion.

References

American ten-pin bowling players 1905 births 1989 deaths {{US-tenpin-bowling-bio-stub