SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A document signed by Dr. James Naismith, the creator of basketball in Springfield, has been sold for $17,840 at an auction. The document, a biographical questionnaire from ...
It certainly does not roll off the tongue, never mind dribble, but the sport we know today as ‘hoops’ was nearly saddled with the cumbersome, if honourable, moniker of ‘Naismith-ball.’ ...