History of Basketball

James Naismith a Canadian inventor created the sport of basketball in 1891; he also created the first rule book for the sport. James first created this sport while working at YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. HE got a peach basket and a soccer ball and wham! He created basketball. His creation for the game of basketball was not an accident. While he was working at YMCA the director asked him to create an indoor game that would give an “athletic distraction” so he grabbed a soccer ball and a peach basket and began playing basketball. The circumstances at the beginning of the game were they played nine versus nine and handled a soccer ball and not a basketball which were shot into peach baskets. In the beginning of basketball there were only 13 rules. Basketball today is completely different from how it was played before because there are more rules and instead of nine versus nine, today it is five versus five etc.