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The first jai alai fronton in the United States was located in St. Louis, Missouri, operating around the time of the 1904 World's Fair. From 1988–1991, the International Jai-Alai Players Association held the longest strike in American professional sport. After the 1988 season, the players, 90% of them Basque, returned home and threatened not ...
Pelota (Spanish for ball) can refer to the popular and shortened names for a number of ball games: Basque pelota; Chaza; Jai alai; Mesoamerican ballgame; Palla; Pelota mixteca; Valencian pilota; Frontenis; Pétanque; Racketlon; Pelota (boat), an improvised skin boat for crossing rivers.
Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.
Whirlyball is a team sport that combines elements of basketball and jai alai with players riding "Whirlybugs", small electric vehicles similar to bumper cars. Because play requires a special court, it is played in only a handful of locations in the United States and Canada. Amateur Whirlyball game in progress
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Jai Alai is the imported US American name of the game known in Basque as saski-pilota (basket-ball, literally - though real basketball is called saskibaloia in Basque) and in Spanish as cesta-punta (basket-point, probably meanining pointed basket).
Francisco Maria Churruca Iriondo Azpiazu Alcorta (born 1 April 1936), also known as Patxi, is a Spanish former jai alai player. A native of Mutriku, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, [1] [2] he is regarded as the game's greatest player [3] [4] and has been called "the Babe Ruth of jai alai."
A highly elastic rubber made ball is employed for speed games. The ball reaches a speed of 120 km/h in a typical service. [3] The fastest ever recorded throw of a pelota ball was 302 km/h, [4] about twice the speed of the fastest recorded pitch of a baseball.