Ask around for the date automation arrived, and somebody will give you one. A specific day, stated with confidence, passed down from pin boy to pin boy like it was written on a plaque somewhere. It is not the date on the patent. It is not the date on the first installed machine, either. It is a date that feels true, which is a different thing entirely from a date that is true, and bowling has spent seventy years treating the difference as a technical footnote.

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What’s Inside

• The Night Automation Killed the Pin Boy
• The Color Line Nobody Drew
• The Million Dollar Man
• The League That Called Itself International
• The Eddie Elias Origin Story
• Brunswick’s Bet and AMF’s Bust
• The Spare That Became Television
• Duckpins, Candlepins, and the Myth of Decline
• The Perfect Game’s Imperfect Paper Trail
• The Oil Pattern Conspiracy