The ball game
The Mesoamerican game played on a walled court with a solid rubber ball struck with the hip or thigh, often for high stakes. Pomar says the friars banned it soon after the conquest.
Growing Up in Texcoco
Juan Bautista Pomar, Report on Texcoco (Texcoco, March 9, 1582): birth, schooling and the raising of children · dated at Texcoco, March 9, 1582; first printed at Mexico, 1891
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Otros se iban á la casa del canto y baile á deprender cantar y bailar: otros al juego de la pelota que se ha dicho, el cual estaba en la plaza pública,
Others went to the house of song and dance to learn to sing and dance. Others went to the ball game I have described, which was in the public square.