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Basketball Tickets - The History Of Their Popularity
By Al Terry
Basketball, one of the most popular sports in the world, had very humble beginnings. Dr. James Naismith, a physical education instructor, created the of basketball. The Canadian born Naismith, while at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, invented basketball in 1891, when looking for an indoor sport during the winter months – specifically to keep his football players in shape during the off season months.
The Invention
Naismith and his wife saw an article in a magazine from South America that featured an Aztec ball called Ollamalitzli, and the Mayan called Ulama, where the round bouncy ball had to go through a hole. He also read another article by Tom Ellison, a New Zealander, which described an ancient Maori ball that involved a lot of handball skills, where the ball was passed aerially with speed and agility.
Taking these games into account, he and his wife devised a new ball game, to be played indoors in a gym. He developed 13 rules for his game, and divided his 18 players into two teams of nine players each. Two peach baskets were tied to the lower railing of the gym’s balcony. The idea was to throw the soccer ball into these peach baskets. As the bottoms of the peach baskets were intact, the had to be stopped every time the ball entered the basket, for the janitor to get a ladder and retrieve the ball!
Of course, those days the games were very low scoring affairs. The very first basketball ever played had an amazingly low score of 1-0. The first official game, played on January 20, 1892, was played on a court half the size of the modern National Basketball Association (NBA) court, involving the use of a soccer ball and two peach baskets for goal.
YMCA, which initially spread the game, later started to discourage playing it, as it was quite rowdy and rough, and deviated from
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