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James Naismith and his wife, Maude, practicing basketball, a game he invented in 1891 as a way to keep rowdy students busy during winter.
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corey stanley on 03 Dec 09I feel this sport that was created years and years ago really helped kids get active and have something different to do on there off time.
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James Naismith is known to the world as the inventor of basketball
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A minister as well as a medical doctor, he quickly realized that taller players had an advantage in basketball and wondered if there was a way to stretch babies to make them grow taller. Naismith actually conducted experiments on a machine he invented