Inventor Of Basketball

It happened in a YMCA gymnasium in 1891 where Dr. James Naismith put a peach basket 10 feet in the air and scribbled down some basic rules for this new game which he had concocted to keep his students active in the long New England winter months. Basket ball was created and quickly caught fire. A soccer ball was initially used and whenever a person landed the ball into the peach basket this was the way people score points; whoever the most points at the end of a game was the winner.

Thought to be incorporated from a game from Canada called duck on a rock and even thought to be a descendent of something well before that, an ancient Mesoamerican ball game which was popular in circulation some 50 years before James Naismith invented basketball, Mr. Naismith is still credited as the inventor of basketball and this is the important thing that we need to remember as fans in the modern day 21st century.

People ask all sorts of questions like when was basketball invented? Where was basketball invented? And why was basketball invented? And all of these have many different in many simple answers. The short answer is that was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts by Dr. James Naismith as a way to keep his students active during the winter months; the long answer is much more complicated than that and involve some great investigative detective research. It was thought that this was a descendent of a number of other games and even though Dr. Naismith is it credited with inventing basketball there are a number of other places which suggests that that would not be fully the case.

Whoever the inventor of basketball was there's a great deal of credit given to Dr. James Naismith just for this one reason; he was the one who put it down first. He was the one who got the kids playing at the YMCA in Springfield and he was the one who wrote it down in diaries and we still have records from; that’s it. While there were other people who may have done similar things before that in the past, it was not with the same level of success that Dr. James Naismith had. For this reason the good doctor is credited as the inventor of basketball and whenever anyone asks you who invented basketball that is what you can tell them.