Early Basketball express Westfield and Wired

Westfield and Wired

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In the 1960s

as if some grand hand had fashioned it into a tutorial on all that nature and agriculture can do

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Early Basketball express Westfield and WiredDr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, practices the game in its original form with a peach basket and soccer ball with his wife, Maude, in Lawrence, Kansas, on December 2, 1928. Naismith devised the game of basketball in 1891 while a member of the faculty of Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, now Springfield College. The Times wrote, "The original rules were typed and handed to young Springfield students, who at first considered the new