In hindsight, it seems obvious to this American: attach strings to the tops of bowling pins so they can be yanked upward into holes that settle down the action so that the pins can be reset.

(The late columnist Mike Royko set pins as a youth.) People enjoy an evening of bowling at Suburbanite ... The more lavish offered swimming pools, meeting halls and nurseries.

Bowling alleys across the country are ditching traditional pinsetters — the machines that sweep away and reset pins — in favor of contraptions that employ string. Think of the pins as ...

“As a little kid, seeing all these huge machines, just to set up bowling pins, it’s like ‘Wow,’” Dayer said. The 19-year-old is the brains behind the operation at Cloverbank ...