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The widely accepted origin story of basketball goes something like this: In 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a young Y.M.C.A. instructor in Springfield, Mass., came up with a game involving two peach ...

There was a soccer ball, too, and 13 rules for a new game their instructor, James Naismith, explained to them." Putz described that first game: "They divided into two teams of nine: No dribbling ...

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His case goes like this: Basketball was invented not by Dr. James Naismith in Springfield, Mass., in 1891, as everyone is taught, but by a Herkimer teenager who came up with the idea first, about ...

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The game’s founder, James Naismith, was part of a movement scholars call “Muscular Christianity.” A seminary-trained Presbyterian, he was driven by a desire to “ win men for the master ...