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Hohokam Ballplayers Made The Bleachers At Yankee Stadium Seem Tame By Comparison.
By Leo Banks
PAMPERED PLAYERS, worshipping fans and a high-stakes mentality.
It sounds like life in professional sports in the 1990s. But it s
actually a description of the sports culture that existed among
the Hohokam people of prehistoric Arizona. Archaeologists have located about 220 amphitheater-like structures
that researchers believe were used by the Hohokam primarily as
ball courts. It s impossible to know with certainty the kind of
game played inside these arenas, built between 750-1200 AD. But
based on evidence excavated at the sites, and documents describing
a similar game played in ancient Mexico, archaeologists say it s
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