Bob Pinkalla

Robert K. Pinkalla (1928 to 2015), known as Bob Pinkalla, was an American ten-pin bowler and the owner of Pinky's Bowl, the Milwaukee bowling alley and pro shop started by his father. He won numerous tournaments from the 1940s through the 1970s. In the 1959-1960 season he set a world record individual average above 238 and ranked first nationally with an 837 series. He and his brother Wayne organised the Pinky's Bowl team that won the 1967 American Bowling Congress national championship with a record 3,327 series, the first and only team to break 3,300 until 1989, and Bob was its top scorer with 700. Four of that five man team joined the eight man United States team at the FIQ tournament in Sweden, where he and his brother took the bronze medal in doubles. He died of heart failure in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, at age 86.