In Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, 30-year-old James Naismith was tasked with creating a game that could be played indoors by high-spirited men. Previously, all other games had resulted in many injuries, so for Naismith, the challenge was to create an energetic game that saw fewer players limping away. Naismith created a game where a ball had to be lobbed into a peach basket suspended quite high up, with the logic being that if the ball had to be dropped into the goal, it couldn’t be thrown at high speed and…
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