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Basketball : Its Origin and Development by James Naismith (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803283709
ISBN-13
9780803283701
eBay Product ID (ePID)
826040

Product Key Features

Book Title
Basketball : Its Origin and Development
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
General, Basketball
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation
Author
James Naismith
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
10.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
95-044893
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
796.323
Synopsis
James Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men's Christian Association Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and felt discouraged because calisthenics and gymnastics didn't engage his students. What was needed was an indoor wintertime game that combined recreation and competition. One evening he worked out the fundamentals of a game that would quickly catch on. Two peach half-bushel baskets gave the name to the brand new sport in late 1891. Basketball: Its Origin and Development was written by the inventor himself, who was inspired purely by the joy of play. Naismith, born in northern Ontario in 1861, gave up the ministry to preach clean living through sport. He describes Duck on the Rock, a game from his Canadian childhood, the creative reasoning behind his basket game, the eventual refinement of rules and development of equipment, the spread of amateur and professional teams throughout the world, and the growth of women's basketball (at first banned to male spectators because the players wore bloomers). Naismith lived long enough to see basketball included in the Olympics in 1936. Three years later he died, after nearly forty years as head of the physical education department at the University of Kansas.
LC Classification Number
GV885.N1815 1996

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