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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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I love this guy for inventing what is now my favorite sport. lol
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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
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This quote is interesting to me because this man tried to make babies grow taller to have an advantage at his sport. It shows that e put a lot of thought into this invention even though making babies taller is impossible
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