Carmen Salvino Autographs
Carmen Salvino (born November 23, 1933) is an American active professional ten-pin bowler, inventor, author, ambassador, and a founding member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). Known as "PBA's Original Showman", Salvino won 17 PBA Tour titles – among them the 1962 PBA National Championship where he defeated fellow bowling legend Don Carter in the finals. He also won two PBA Senior Tour titles, including the 1984 Senior National Championship. The right-handed bowler was among the eight original inductees to the PBA Hall of Fame in 1975, and is also a member of the USBC Hall of Fame (inducted 1979), the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame (inducted 1985), the Illinois Sports Hall of Fame, and the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.
Salvino was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 23, 1933, to Michael and Philomena (Theresa) Salvino (nee DeVito). He has two brothers, Joseph and Richard, and a sister, Phylis, they lived on the city's west side until the age of 5. In order to make a better living during the Great Depression, Salvino's father moved the entire family to Dania, Florida where he worked as a vegetable farmer in a job created by President Roosevelt's New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. During his childhood years, Salvino learned his strong work ethic from helping his father manually plow vegetable fields for long, strenuous work days. Despite the hard work, his family was still very poor. For an entire year, he didn't own a pair of shoes, and for two straight years, he owned only one pair of overalls.
After living in Florida for 5 years, the family moved back to Chicago's west side and the young Salvino found work shining shoes on Madison Street. In 1945, at the age of 11, Salvino was introduced to bowling when he was walking down a street in his west-side neighborhood and noticed a bowling pin lying on the ground outside the Amalgamated Center located at 333 S. Ashland. The building was home to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America labor union and it housed a private 6-lane bowling alley reserved for workers in the garment industry. His interest piqued, Salvino walked inside the building and talked to a man who oversaw the bowling lanes. In a stroke of luck, he offered the young Salvino a job making three dollars a night as a pin-boy. He then began to practice. The first ball Salvino ever threw was a strike, and it was there, at the Amalgamated Center, that a legend was born.
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Traded items with a signature of Carmen Salvino
The most expensive item with a signature of Carmen Salvino (DICK WEBER, CARMEN SALVINO, AND MORE, AUTOGRAPHED BOWLING PIN) was sold in April 2018 for $208.99 while the cheapest item (Carmen Salvino ABC PBA HOF Ten-Pin Bowler Signed AUTO Vintage Bowling Brochure) found a new owner for $0.99 in June 2024. The month with the most items sold (2) was January 2008 with an average selling price of $11.27 for an autographed item of Carmen Salvino. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2018 with $208.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was December 2008. In average, an autographed item from Carmen Salvino is worth $5.50.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Carmen Salvino were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Autographed Signed Carmen Salvino Bowler Index Card jhaut | $16.49 |  |
| Carmen Salvino #75 signed autograph auto 1990 Kingpins PBA Bowling Trading Card | $30.00 | |
| Carmen Salvino #75 signed autograph auto 1990 Kingpins PBA Bowling Trading Card | $12.00 | |
| Carmen Salvino #75 signed autograph auto 1990 Kingpins PBA Bowling Trading Card | $12.00 | |
| Carmen Salvino #75 signed autograph auto 1990 Kingpins PBA Bowling Trading Card | $12.00 | |
| Carmen Salvino 1990 Kingpins PBA Tour #75 signed autograph Card PSA/DNA Slabbed | $37.00 | |
| Carmen Salvino ABC PBA HOF Ten-Pin Bowler Signed AUTO Vintage Bowling Brochure | $0.99 | |
| Carmen Salvino Autograph PBA HOF “ Showman” 3x5 Cardstock | $12.99 | |
| Carmen Salvino Signed 8 X 10 Photo Autographed Pba Pro Professional Bowling | $29.99 | |
| Carmen Salvino Signed 8 X 10 Photo Pba Pro Professional Bowling | $24.99 | |
| Carmen Salvino signed autograph auto 1990 Kingpins PBA Bowling Trading Card | $8.00 | |
| CARMEN SALVINO SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CARD 1990 KINGPINS BOWLING | $10.00 | |
| CARMEN SALVINO SIGNED AUTOGRAPH CARD 1990 KINGPINS BOWLING | $8.35 | |
| DICK WEBER, CARMEN SALVINO, AND MORE, AUTOGRAPHED BOWLING PIN | $208.99 | |
| HOFer Carmen Salvino professional ten-pin bowler Hand Signed Brochure | $2.25 | |
