James Naismith
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James Naismith was the inventor of basketball.
Primary Contributions (1)
Throwing a ball into half-bushel peach baskets was what Canadian-American educator James Naismith, at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, suggested in December 1891 when asked to devise an indoor game that could keep men physically fit during the winter. His invention,β¦
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