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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 hotel was constructed in 1914 to serve as a boarding house for Basque sheepherders. [4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 25, 2003. It was built by and/or for Basque immigrant Juan "Jack" Anduiza. [5] It contains a fronton for playing Basque pelota. [6] [7] It was designed by architects Nisbet & Paradice. [5]
Pages in category "Basque pelota in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Bare-handed Pelota First League (Campeonato Manomanista) is the most important tournament competition of Hand-pelota category of Basque pelota.It was created in 1940, when the new Basque Pelota Spanish Federation, to have a champion of the category.
The Basque sport best known outside the Basque Country is Basque pelota. It is a Basque version of the family of ball games that covers squash , tennis , and real tennis , all of them thought to derive from the Jeu de paume and hence a relative of Valencian pilota .
The main modalities played in the Atano III fronton are Hand-pelota and Paleta-rubber.Atano III is one of the frontons which held one of the most important yearly competitions in the sport, the 1st Hand-Pelota Championship, with 40 finals played there until the current date.
José María Palacios Moraza (September 2, 1935 – April 21, 2002), known by the pseudonym of Ogueta was a Basque pelota player in the category of hand-pelota. Often considered one of the best pelotaris of the history of Álava, in 1979 a professional fronton was named after him in Vitoria, the capital city of the province: the Ogueta fronton.
The main modalities played in the fronton are Hand-pelota and Paleta-rubber. Despite that Ogueta has a bigger capacity than Atano III , were played only two 1st Hand-pelota championship finals. It's the usual fronton used for the Doubles-pelota and Cuatro y Medio championships.