Basketball

James Naismith is the inventor of basketball.

He invented basketball in 1891, while working at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.

James Naismith invented basketball because at YMCA, they needed at sport to play indoors because it was too cold outside for football or baseball.

In the beginning of basketball every time you scored you had to get the ball from the basket because it still wasn’t an open circle in the bottom.  

At first basketball was played with a peach basket and soccer like ball. Back then there were only 13 rules.

The first game was 9 vs. 9.