Inducted 1996
Player: Alan Francis is still accumulating victories and
statistics that place at or near the top in every World Tournament category. His career began in Missouri as he won four
consecutive Junior Boy’s World Championship from 1982 to 1985. He had a 42-2 won – lost record over the four
years and average 88.8% ringers in the 1985 event. He won five Junior State titles and ten consecutive
Missouri Men’s State titles 1986-1995, before moving to Ohio in 1995 and has
won many more State Championships there.
No one could have anticipated how dominating Alan would be in the World
Tournament competition. Even though he had
won several Junior titles, he had that strange ¾ reverse turn shoe and who
could ever perfect that. Alan won his
first Men’s World title in 1989 and has won 24 more World Men’s title since then
and is still counting. No Individual has
dominated a division for so long as Alan has in the Men’s Division. In 2021, Alan won his record breaking ninth consecutive
championship which broke his own record of 8 straight. He won 134 games while losing just one in
that streak.