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Basketball History of
Title: Basketball History of
Category: Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 2372 | Pages: 10.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Basketball History of
History of Basketball
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The game of basketball has evolved a great deal throughout the years. Basketball was invented on December 21, 1891. The inventor of the game was a Canadian clergyman, James Naismith (Joseph Morse, 1973).
The game of basketball was fashioned from fragments of other games, seeking to eliminate flaws of indoor rugby, soccer and lacrosse. Naismith also borrowed aspects from the children’s game “Duck-on-a-Rock,” in which children tried to knock off …showed first 75 words of 2372 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2372 total…York: Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., 1973.
Lauren S. Bahr. Collier’s Encyclopedia Connecticut: P.F. Collier, Inc., 1995
Frank G. Menke. Encyclopedia of Sports London: A.S. Barnes & Co., Inc., 1970.
John Arlott, The Oxford Companion to Sport and Game (New York: Oxford University, 1975)
Barbara A. Chernow. The Columbia Encyclopedia New York: Columbia University Press, 1993
J.A. Cudden The International Dictoionary of Sport and Game (London: J.A. Cudden, 1979)
Ralph Hickok. New Encyclopedia of Sports Toronto: McGraw-Hill Co., Inc., 1977
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