Jai alai
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Jai alai is a Basque sport involving bouncing a ball against walls by accelerating it to high speeds with a xistera, a wicker basket-like glove. It is a variation of Basque pelota. The term jai alai,
Jai alai play in progress
Long xistera
Guernica Fronton, Basque Country, Spain
Jai alai arena in Mexico City near the Monument to the Revolution.
Basque pelota
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Basque pelota 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 or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face sepa
Jai alai
…Basque sport involving bouncing a ball against walls by accelerating it to high speeds with a xistera, a wicker basket-like glove. It is a variation of Basque pelota. The term jai alai, coined by Serafin Baroja in 1875, is also often loosely applied to the fronton (the walled playing-area). The game, whose name means…
A game of pelota as played in Ustaritz
Basque Pelota's game under the Hondarribia's City walls, by Gustave-Henri Colin in 1863.
Frontoi in Ainhoa (Labourd)
Playing paleta at the trinquet of Elizondo (Navarre)