Trivia
- The game skills have also been used occasionally in combat.
- Films and television programmes that show pelota being played include:
- Philip Leacock's 1956 film, The Spanish Gardener
- The Russell Rouse's Western film Thunder in the Sun
- The Italian movie Pari e dispari (1978)
- The Simpsons] (Lenny, Homer's friend, is shown to live in a pelota playground)
- The Basque Ball (Spanish documentary film about Basque politics that uses pelota as a metaphor)
- Jørgen Leth's documentary "Pelota".
- Miami Vice (Jai-alai pelota)
- The name Jai alai meaning (festival + merry) was coined in 1875 by Serafin Baroja, father of Carmen, Ricardo and Pío Baroja.
- A variation of Jai alai is featured in the film Tron in which players bounced the ball off of the ceiling to the opposite side of the playing field
- Current French rugby union international Imanol Harinordoquy, a French Basque, grew up playing Basque pelota before he took up rugby at age 14.
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