how did basketball start?
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-basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith.\n\n-He invented it for the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891.  he needed to come up with a game that could be played indoors (winter months), that wasn't too violent (like rugby or football), and had a system of scoring that awarded skill over force (a horizontal goal instead of a vertical goal like soccer).\n\n-he origianlly made 13 rules, and then modified them as his students worked out the mechanics of the game.\n\n-the baskets were origianlly peach barrels nailed to the wooden railing that was 10ft above the gym floor (that's why today's nets are the same height)\n\n-shooting at the basket was based on the game "duck on rock", where the player tried to arc a stone and know another stone off a pedastal.  the better players arced their shots, so if they missed they wouldn't have to run as fall to get their stones back\n\nThat good enough?
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In medieval England there used to be a chaotic game which football is based on - all the yokels would kick a sheep's bladder around the place from one end of the village to the other. \n\nHowever, other countries developed their own game involving kicking a ball so it's hard to say where it definitively started.
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Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith.  It originally was played with a soccar ball and peach baskets for hoops.
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The first sport ever was gymnastics in Greece during Greek GOD time.
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Basketball is played by two teams of five players each on a rectangular court, generally 50 by 94 feet for college and professional teams, 50 by 84 feet for high school players. (These dimensions are called "ideal" in the rules; they are not definitely prescribed, and high school teams often have smaller courts.) The court is divided into halves by the halfcourt line.\n\nAt the center of a court is the center jump circle, and at either end of the court, 4 feet from the end line, there is a basket, a rim 18 in in diameter and 10 feet above the floor, from which hangs a net of white cord 15 to 18 in long. Behind each basket is a backboard. For college and professional play, it is a glass rectangle 72 in wide by 48 in high; high schools may use a fan-shaped backboard 54 in wide. Beneath each basket a 12-foot lane (16 feet in professional play) is marked, ending at the free throw line, which is 15 feet from the basket. The free throw circle is inscribed around the line.\n\nThe 3-point line is an arc 19 feet, 9 inches from the basket in college basketball, 20 feet, 6 inches under international rules. In the NBA, the line is 23 feet, 9 inches from the basket for most of its length but only 22 feet away in the corners.\n\nThe basketball is spherical, 29 ½ to 30 inches in circumference and 20 to 22 ounces in weight. When dropped from a height of 6 feet a properly inflated ball will bounce to a height of 49-54 inches.
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Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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yes james naismith invented basketball. he invented during a summer at YMCA a long ago. he used two peach baskets and a soccer ball.
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I think this is it:\n\nhttp://www.seehowtheylive.com/basketball.php
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James Naismith invented basketball in 1891.
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the invention of basketball is credited to Dr. James Naismith in the United States.
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The ball and the basket.
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The first pro basketball team in Miami were the Miami Heat which entered the league in the 1988-89 season and remain to this day.
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basketball game played generally indoors by two opposing teams of five players each. Basketball was conceived in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a physical education instructor at the YMCA college in Springfield, Mass., as a way to condition outdoor athletes during the winter months. His original list of 13 rules has undergone a century of revision, leading to faster pacing and greater athleticism.\n\nThere more information in the link below.
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jazzie606 and ong jon  pretty much have it right.\n\nBasketball is not a 'black' game... it's a city game.\n\nHistorically, whatever 'group' of people comprise the majority of inner city populations, also happened to be the dominant players in basketball.\n\nBack in the 1920s and 1930s, the majority of inner city residents were Jewish, Jewish players dominated basketball. As we moved into the 1940s and 1950s, Jews moved out of the inner cities, blacks from the south moved into the inner cities, and basketball was soon dominated by black players.\n\nI remember on an NBC special re: the dominance of blacks in sports, they interviewed a Jewish player from the 1930s, and he said that "we used to say that every Jewish kid was born with a basketball in his hands"... of course, the same was later said about blacks.\n\nBut basketball is a city game (don't need much space or equipment to play), and this is why the majority of the best/most exciting players come from big ciites.
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How Did Hockey Get Started?\nThe creation of ice hockey can't be traced to any one person or event. The game most likely evolved from British field sports such as hurley and shinty. The word hockey may have come from the French word hoquet, which was the name for the hooked sticks used to bat a ball or cork around. These sports were similar to field hockey, and are still played today. \nDuring the winter, some players must have tried playing the game on ice. The long, frigid winters in Canada allowed this variation to catch on quickly in the 19th century, and the game also spread into the Scandinavian countries, as well as Russia. Hockey would develop independently in Russia, until the Russian hockey program converted to the Canadian style and rules in the 1930s. \n\nThe first documented hockey game took place on March 3, 1875, in Montreal, Quebec. The earliest games featured nine players per side on the ice, with a square rink that had no boards. Only a low curb separated the crowd from the action. Over the course of several decades, the game slowly morphed into something resembling modern hockey: The number of players on the ice decreased; players began firing shots that rose up off the ice, forcing goalies to adopt thick leg pads and a wide stick blade.
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I've personally found that basketball is the best for group play. Everyone gets involved in all the aspects. Running, passing, shooting, rebounding. It's a total team effort.
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Squash derives from the games loosely known as Rackets during the 19th century. Rackets itself came from a strange source. Sports involving hitting a ball with a racket of sorts had become increasingly popular at that time and one version developed in London's Fleet prison where debtor inmates got their exercise by whacking a ball against the prison's many walls. \n\nBy some weird and wonderful twist of fate the idea was taken up at Harrow public school, where it was noticed it was more interesting and physically demanding to play with a ball that  'squashed' on impact with the wall rather than bouncing straight back. Squash was officially founded when the school had four courts purpose built for the new sport.