When I was young, one of my best Christmas presents was a set of plastic bowling pins. (Truth be told, those pins were taken away from me in kindergarten because I wouldn’t talk to the teacher. The ...

MILWAUKEE—A tougher breed of bowling pin is popping up at alleys in the U.S. and abroad. Serious bowlers have cause to fear them. New technology makes these bowling pins harder to knock down, ...

It wasn’t only that their male customers were being drafted. Alleys were also losing a critical part of their human infrastructure: pinsetters. These were the employees who reset the bowling pins and ...