I like to say that being a laneman is the hardest job in bowling. After all, the old joke is that in any given event every player but one — the winner — is mad at the laneman. In all seriousness, a laneman with a conscience and a desire to do the job right is going to experience a lot of stress: lane maintenance is more art than science, and no matter what the laneman does it is virtually impossible to achieve true “fairness” between lefties and righties, crankers and...