- Unknown Binding: 198 pages
- Publisher: Association press (1941)
- ASIN: B0006API38
Basketball: Its Origin and Development
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IT WAS evening, and a group of boys had gathered at Bennie's Corners, in the northern part of Ontario, Canada. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
IT WAS evening, and a group of boys had gathered at Bennie's Corners, in the northern part of Ontario, Canada. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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Just what it says
21 Dec 2011
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I am a basketball coach and this book was extremely helpful in understanding the biginnings and development of this wonderful sport. There are other books out there but this one is the best. I have met some of James Naismith's family and they asurred me of the truth in the book. Great! Perfect. Wish I had a first edition.
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20 July 2010
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Used this book for a class. Kind of stale but might be interesting to the basketball fan.
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The only first person account of basketball's start
9 May 2000
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A Canadian by birth, Naismith, a physician and minister with additional degrees in education and psychology, also invented the football helmet and taught sex education. Naismith never made any money from the game he invented. In fact, he refused fees when he spoke about basketball in public, and he once turned down a substantial sum to endorse cigarettes. Amos Alonzo Stagg, a YMCA facility member and a player in the first basketball games, recommended Naismith to start a basketball program at the University of Kansas. He took the job, which he held from 1898 until his death in 1939, though he coached basketball for only nine years. The inventor of the game is the only coach in University of Kansas history with a losing record: 53 wins and 55 losses. An amazing man and a wonderful look at his YMCA invention: basketball
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