Great Big Story | Jai Alai: The Sport That America Forgot About 😲 @GreatBigStory | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
For much of the 20th century, jai alai dominated the Miami sports scene, attracting crowds as large as 15,000. Today, the sport is barely hanging on in America. So what happened? Well, it’s a wild story, one involving gangs, organized crime and murder. We caught up with decorated jai alai athletes Benny Bueno and Leon Shepard to get the scoop on the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of America’s forgotten sport.

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