Pinball is one of the greatest American inventions and a distinctly American pastime. This gallery quality coffee table book has over 2800 original images and tells the story of pinball like it has never been told before. The Making of a Pinball Machine section shows how these labor of love machines, with over 3000 parts each, are made.
This is a story about a big, loud, ball-and-bat game that has evolved over a century of innovation and refinement. A game that has turned thousands of people into wizards. A game that could easily have gone away, but didn’t, because there was one organization that loved it too much to let it die. This is a story about Stern Pinball, a company which grew out of a townhouse to become the world’s oldest and largest pinball company.
