Marshall Holman (born September 29, 1954) is an American sports broadcaster and retired professional ten-pin bowler.
[1] The first bowler on the PBA Tour to surpass $1.5 million in earnings, Holman won 22 titles (13th most all-time), including four majors (two U.S.
[3] In 1979, Holman became the youngest bowler in history (24 years, 274 days) to reach ten career PBA Tour titles.
One of the reasons Holman did not win any titles in 1980 was an incident at a tournament that June, when he kicked (and broke) the foul light on his lane out of frustration with his game, netting him a $2500 fine and a 10-tournament suspension.
Holman indicated in a 2017 interview that he is retired from competitive bowling and does not anticipate taking part in any more PBA senior events.
From 1998 to 1999, he worked for CBS Sports and was teamed with Gary Seibel for telecasts when that network briefly showed PBA events.
He served as a color analyst at the 2007 USBC Queens tournament and was in the broadcast booth (along with Nelson Burton, Jr.) for ESPN's five-week coverage of the 2007 and 2008 U.S. Women's Open events.
Marshall was then dubbed a similar nickname "Holman the Bowlman", as well as "Medford Meteor"; color analyst Nelson Burton, Jr. provided this information during a PBA Tour telecast on ABC on February 2, 1985.
Earlier in his bowling career, as once mentioned in the American Bowlers Journal magazine in the 1980s, Holman had a girlfriend from the state of New Hampshire.