A review by mhanlon
The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game by John Fox

4.0

I started reading this after plugging "The History of the Mayan Ball League." On the recommendation of an anthropologist. It was a really nice diversion into the history of why we play ball, and in what forms we have, over the years.
It contains an interesting chapter on "the ball game," or ulama, as the Maya called it.