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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 ...
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.
The sport once held the world record for ball speed with a 125–140 g ball covered with goatskin that traveled at 302 km/h (188 mph), performed by José Ramón Areitio at the Newport, Rhode Island Jai Alai, until it was broken by Canadian 5-time long drive champion Jason Zuback on a 2007 episode of Sport Science with a golf ball speed of 328 ...
Players and fans of jai alai hope the closing of the last fronton or court in Florida doesn't mean the end of the sport.
The Miami Dolphins naturally dominated the South Florida sports scene in 1972 as they marched toward their Perfect Season with ... who was becoming a star at the Miami Jai Alai Fronton at 3500 NW ...
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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The "quinze" is won when the opposing team can not throw back the ball according to these rules or commits a fault: If the ball does not reach the "frontis" wall. If, in the service, the ball does not reach the "fault line". If the ball hits under the 90 cm horizontal line on the "frontis", or goes over the "frontis" or side walls.