Ballgames

In the News . . .

• Ritually decapitated ball player statue found -- Past Horizons (09 June 2013)
  
  
• Ancient Ball Player Statue Found in Mexico -- Discovery News (04 June 2013)

• The Ancient Mesoamerican Ballgame Compared to Football at Notre Dame -- Meredith Foley
  
  
• The Ball Game -- El Museo del Barrio
  
  
• The Ball Game -- Mundo Maya
  
  
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• El Corazón del Juego: El Juego de Pelota Mesoamericano como Texto Cultural en la Narrativa y el Cine Contemporáneo -- Mauricio Espinoza
  
  
• Divine Patrons of the Maya Ballgame -- Alexandre Tokovinine
  
  
• Early Mesoamerican Ballgame Bibliography -- NATASHA L JOHNSON
  
  
• Extreme Sport-- Colleen P. Popson
  
  
• "Let's Play Ball" ~ The McGraw-Hill Companies
  
  

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• Mesoamerican ballgame -- wapedia
  
  
• Mesoamerican Ballgame -- Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, NC)
• The Mesoamerican Ballgame-Ulama
  
  
• Mesoamericans Were The First Polymer Scientists -- Discovery News (26 May 2010)
  
  
• Monitor Review: The Mesoamerican Ballgame ~ Jim Regan
  
  
• Myth made flesh -- the maya ballgame -- Liam Rogers
  
  
• Mesoamerican ballgame -- Wikipedia
  
  
• The Mesoamerican Ballgame -- Oaxaca Hotel Groups
  
  
• The Monkey and the Ball Game -- Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, and Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
  
  

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• Pokatok -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Pokatok: The Mayan Ballgame -- ShieldJaguar
  
  
  
• SACRED SPORTS in 8th century pre-Hispanic Mexico: The Ancient Mesoamerican Ballgames of the Maya and Aztec -- A slide lecture by archaeologist Nicholas M. Hellmuth
  
  
• Tlachtli --Polymer Science Learning Center, Chemical Heritage Foundation
  
  
• ULAMA (Ullamaliztli) ~ The Mazatlan Historic Society
  
  
• Ulama -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Yaxchilan:The Classic Maya ballgame -- University of Texas at Austin
  
  
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  • Mexican Ballgame -- pitufoone
    
    
    

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• Images
  
  
  • Ball Player (?), 7th–10th century, Mexico, Nopiloa, Veracruz, Mexico -- Metropolitan Museum of Art
    
    
  • Illustration of the Maya Ballgame -- L.C. Swanson
    
    
  • Maya ballgame figurine gif animmation page -- Museo Popol Vhu
    
    
  • Tiquisate ballgame -- FLAAR, Nicholas Hellmuth

Ballplayer painting from the Tepantitla, Teotihuacán, Mexico
Note the speech scroll
issuing from the player's mouth
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