Cranston-based Great American Recreation Equipment, formerly known as Great American Billiard, manufactures and sells billiard tables for commercial and home use. It offers customization options such as cloth and laminate colors. Coin-operated tables are also available. For more information, call the office during regular business hours.
Strike FX Pro Shop is located in AMF Cranston Lanes on Elmwood Avenue. It carries a vast array of bowling balls in adult sizes. Character designs are available in children's sizes. You can also find shoes, bags, gloves and accessories in different styles and colors. It offers coaching from a certified instructor for youth levels.
Tom Spargo has owned and operated his shop at this location for more than two years. He offers professional golf club fittings, adjustments and repairs. His business is located on Mulligans Island which offers a miniature golf course, driving range, pitch and putt course, batting cage and a 9-hole golf course. The course is easily visible from New London Avenueand accessible near the Pastore Center.
2nd Time Around Sports boasts the largest selection of new and used sporting equipment in Rhode Island. Owner Joe Mastrati has been in business since 1999. This enormous store has rows stocked full of supplies for every type athlete including bats, snowboards, golf clubs, and hockey equipment. They also offer consignment plans.
Cranston Veterans Memorial Ice Rink, home of the Cranston Reds is an indoor hockey rink located on Phenix Avenue. The hockey rink has numerous uses such as being home to Cranston East High School and Cranston West High School hockey programs, hosting youth hockey leagues and adult hockey leagues for men and women, public skating sessions, learn-to-skate programs and is also home to the Cranston Figure Skating Association. The ice rink has four locker rooms, can hold over 1,000 fans on its bleachers and also has a concession stand and snack bar open during games. Public skating is available every day of the week and costs $5 for adults, $3 for children under 6 and $2 for seniors. Skate Rentals are $5. The ice rink is also available for rent and costs $235 per hour.
Commercial Screenprint Plus can print text and designs on a range of apparel including tees, polos, sweats, hats, jackets, corporate apparel, and sports uniforms. It also prints signs, labels, decals, bumper stickers and business cards. Commercial Screenprint plus partners with many of the local sports associations and specializes in screenprinted numbering on t-shirts. Nick Melfi is the proprietor of this 50-year-old shop. "Quick turnaround time is our motto!" He says. As a Cranston resident and father of Cranston East alumni, he enjoys the town's wonderful close-knit sports community. He offers customer satisfaction and lower prices by cutting out the middle man.
Eastern Mountain Sports is a chain of sports equipment stores that was started in 1967 in Wellesley by rock climbers Alan McDonough and Roger Furst. Today, EMS is owned by the EMS Management Group, led by EMS's current President and CEO Will Manzer. The Eastern Mountain Sports in Cranston is located inside Garden City next to Country Curtains and sells clothing for men, women and children such as pants, sweaters, shirts, jackets, hiking boots, hats, winter boots, socks, underwear and bras. EMS also sells accessories and tools such as luggage, sunglasses, bandannas, watches, batteries, cell-phone cases, sleeping bags, flashlights, knives, binoculars, lanterns, first-aid kits and more. Customers to EMS can also find equipment and spare parts for bicycles, climbing apparatuses, helmets, rope, kayaks, skis and snowboards.
Players is a sporting goods store located inside the Brewery Parkade. The store has a large assortment of clothing and apparel for kids and adults including shoes, T-shirts, jerseys, caps, sweaters, pants, sneakers and shorts. The store has two changing rooms.
Bennett Sports is a hockey pro shop located inside the Cranston Veterans Memorial Ice Rink on Phenix Avenue. The store was started in 1968 by Harvey Bennett Sr. after he retired from a 17-year career playing professional hockey. It is now run by his son Bill Bennett, who also played hockey professionally for the Boston Bruins and Hartford Whalers. Bennett Sports has a large selection of ice skates, hockey sticks, hockey masks, gloves, jerseys, clothing and other apparel related to the sport. The shop also repairs hockey equipment or ice skates and sharpens ice skates for $5. Parents can choose to enroll their children in Hockey School through Bennett Sports or get uniforms or jerseys embroidered with team names or other text through Bennett's embroidery shop.