What the Hell Happened to Jai-Alai?

What the Hell Happened to Jai-Alai?

2016 · 15 min · Documentary

Back in the day, jai-alai players were celebrities that would ceremoniously march out to salute crowds of 15,000 fans, but after a disastrous 1988 strike the game became nothing more than a cultural afterthought.

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