Awards and Recognition
- Six-time PBA Player of the Year winner (1974–76 and 1981–83)
- Five-time George Young High Average award winner (1973–75, 1980, 1983)
- Established a record for most consecutive PBA seasons winning at least one tournament (15), which stood until 2008 when it was broken by Walter Ray Ray Williams Jr.
- Holds PBA record of 15 televised finals appearances in one season (1975, 1981)
- Holds the PBA and Professional Bowling record with 10 major tournament titles
- Inducted into PBA Hall of Fame, 1981
- Inducted into ABC (now USBC) Hall of Fame, 1986
- Voted "Bowler of the Millennium" in a 2000 poll conducted by Bowling Digest
- Voted the greatest PBA player ever, when the PBA announced its "50 Greatest Players of the Last 50 Years" list in the 2008-09 season
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