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Old 01-16-2018, 12:16 AM   #1
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I want to read this guy's name as Jai Alai.

Here's an interesting article about either him or the sport of jai alai. I'm not sure which.

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Old 01-16-2018, 09:40 AM   #2
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I want to read this guy's name as Jai Alai.

Here's an interesting article about either him or the sport of jai alai. I'm not sure which.

https://www.sbnation.com/longform/20...-america-miami
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Jai alai used to be a very popular spectator sport in this country, with frontons up and down the Eastern seaboard. Presidents watched jai alai with their wives. Ernest Hemingway bragged about getting to hang out with jai alai players. In fact, during World War II he concocted a scheme in which jai alai players would somehow lob grenades down the open hatches of unsuspecting German U-boats. Now, the sport seems like a relic, a vision into the past. It’s vestigial, like an appendix.

But the truth is, this could be the future of any number of sports that are popular today. With a few small twists of fate, in time, this could be baseball or hockey or even football. If rule changes—precipitated by concussions—lead to an erosion of the fan base, football, like jai alai, might one day exist only for the purposes of gambling. It’s not impossible to imagine someone looking back a few generations from now on the hordes of drunken, screaming fans who fill up Cowboys Stadium and tailgate in their jerseys the same way we see those old jai alai patrons, with their suits and bourbon and cigars: anachronisms, ghosts from another time.
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Old 01-16-2018, 10:13 AM   #3
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Here's an interesting article about either him or the sport of jai alai. I'm not sure which.

https://www.sbnation.com/longform/20...-america-miami
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