Merry Christmas, HBDers, hope everyone's having a great Holiday. I had a pretty unusual one, tromping around the ruins of Tikal, one of the largest archaeological sites of the Maya and perhaps their most influential city from 200-900 AD. It's located in northern Guatemala and was discovered in the "modern" era in 1848. Mapping, excavation and renovation was started in the 1950's by the University of Pennsylvania and continues today. There's absolutely nothing about the site associated with baseball, but there are quite a few places where they played the Mesoamerican ballgame (although I don't think the version played in Tikal involved the human sacrifice of the losers - I believe that was more a thing with the Aztec version up in central Mexico). Anyway, hope you enjoy this diversion from our little hobby.
Jaguar Temple in Grand Plaza (completed about 745 AD)
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