Dania’s 22-Player Roster Announced Dania’s has released its 22-player roster last week, as the three-month season (or shall we say “Tournament”) starts a little bit earlier this year on Friday, November 29th. By looking at Say Hi Li’s/Mo Crank’s story, it appears that there will be 7 new players making their debut, while 9 others […]
By Marty Fleischman The players, all carrying their cestas, descended the movable metal stairway which abutted the Eastern Airline prop jet. Their flight, Bilbao-Madrid-Miami-Tampa, was a long, tiring ordeal. But, these 40 young Basque athletes all had smiles on their faces, posing on the stairway for the many media assembled to get the obligatory picture […]
Benny Bueno Picks up $10K Batch of Pelota’s & Makes Cancha Visit Dana’s Jai-alai director of operations made a two-day visit to the Tampa Bay area yesterday that included a St. Pete cancha visit and a baseball game. Benny Bueno made the trip to pick up a big box of pelota’s which are made in […]
Carballo, Lopez, Olharan out at Magic City, RonRon Returns As reported by Say HiLi a few days ago, there has been a few major changes at the Magic City Fronton for the season that starts Friday, September 6th . Carballo, one of the original Magic City players who learned jai-alai from “scratch” in 2018 […]
Dania’s 22-Player Roster Announced
Jeff ‘Laca’ Conway BlogsDania’s 22-Player Roster Announced Dania’s has released its 22-player roster last week, as the three-month season (or shall we say “Tournament”) starts a little bit earlier this year on Friday, November 29th. By looking at Say Hi Li’s/Mo Crank’s story, it appears that there will be 7 new players making their debut, while 9 others […]
Opening Night- 1971-72 Tampa Jai-Alai Season (15 of 91)
Marty Fleischman BlogsBy Marty Fleischman The players, all carrying their cestas, descended the movable metal stairway which abutted the Eastern Airline prop jet. Their flight, Bilbao-Madrid-Miami-Tampa, was a long, tiring ordeal. But, these 40 young Basque athletes all had smiles on their faces, posing on the stairway for the many media assembled to get the obligatory picture […]
Benny Bueno Picks up $10K Batch of Pelota’s & Makes Cancha Visit
Jeff ‘Laca’ Conway BlogsBenny Bueno Picks up $10K Batch of Pelota’s & Makes Cancha Visit Dana’s Jai-alai director of operations made a two-day visit to the Tampa Bay area yesterday that included a St. Pete cancha visit and a baseball game. Benny Bueno made the trip to pick up a big box of pelota’s which are made in […]
Carballo, Lopez, Olharan out at Magic City, RonRon Returns
Jeff ‘Laca’ Conway BlogsCarballo, Lopez, Olharan out at Magic City, RonRon Returns As reported by Say HiLi a few days ago, there has been a few major changes at the Magic City Fronton for the season that starts Friday, September 6th . Carballo, one of the original Magic City players who learned jai-alai from “scratch” in 2018 […]