Here’s the story the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield tells: The athletic director of the YMCA in Springfield, invented basketball in Dec. 12, 1891. Advertisement “That day, a physical ...

PARIS — If casual American basketball fans didn’t already know this, then the world made it loud and clear in Paris: The ...

Gulick, Naismith invented a new game for his students ... As Naismith wrote in his posthumously published 1941 book, Basketball: Its Origin and Development, “I began to study games from the ...

First among these pioneers, it suggests, should be Smith gymnastics instructor Senda Berenson, "the matriarch of women's basketball," who in 1892, "less than a year after Dr. James A. Naismith ...

The game of volleyball, invented in Massachusetts, was intended as an alternative to basketball, which is also rooted in ...

“Basketball is a worldwide event,” Phipps said. “We need to make an awareness of it, by continuing to emphasize that the man who invented the game lived and died here.” Steve ...