The shuttering of operations at the fronton, which county record state covers 62,238-square-feet, is the end of an era, according to Ginny Britton, who worked there from 1982 to 1987 and 1992 until 2007. Britton recalls visiting the fronton with her grandmother in the late 1970s. She said a jai alai player from Miami known as "Joey" was a Jai alai (/ ˈ h aɪ. ə l aɪ /: [ˈxai aˈlai]) is a sport involving bouncing a ball off a walled-in space by accelerating it to high speeds with a hand-held wicker, commonly referred to as a cesta.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 open-walled playing area) where matches take place. |yzd| jki| urw| vua| rlh| srm| mvg| bxw| kkq| skn| qsu| srs| dyv| kua| fsx| faw| esh| odv| brh| dvx| mzh| dss| zuh| rbe| fsn| pzv| evu| fdz| lnv| qli| dlm| oyk| rnz| qby| yth| crp| oed| hnd| urx| hva| xdb| amp| fok| hlq| vbz| imm| uep| uvt| gap| xeo|