{"id":13657,"date":"2016-04-18T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T15:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=13657"},"modified":"2017-02-09T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:27:19","slug":"do-you-know-who-invented-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/do-you-know-who-invented-basketball.html","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know Who Invented Basketball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Dr. James A. Naismith (1861-1939), who invented it in 1891 while working at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13659\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A114CF38DF1A90B10%40GB3NEWS-11A2F392EB388788%402422726-11A2F39321B77C28%405-11A2F3943465A2A0\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13659\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/idaho-statesman-newspaper-0205-1921-james-naismith-basketball.png\" alt=\"an article about Dr. James A. Naismith and basketball, Idaho Statesman newspaper article 5 February 1921\" width=\"288\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/idaho-statesman-newspaper-0205-1921-james-naismith-basketball.png 288w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/idaho-statesman-newspaper-0205-1921-james-naismith-basketball-171x300.png 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Idaho Statesman (Boise, Idaho), 5 February 1921, page 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It all started with a tough New England winter in 1891, two peach baskets, a ball, and a dogged determination by 18 players to win.<\/p>\n<p>That first basketball game left a lot of injured players, so Dr. Naismith added more rules to the game to make it safer.<\/p>\n<p>You can hear him tell the story in this brief two-minute interview recorded 31 January 1939 just months before he died:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/exhibits.lib.ku.edu\/exhibits\/show\/naismith150\/collections\/radio-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/exhibits.lib.ku.edu\/exhibits\/show\/naismith150\/collections\/radio-interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> GenealogyBank has digitized the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all\">newspaper<\/a> \u2013 including the sports pages with the details of basketball games &amp; scores. 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