The author tells how he came to invent the game of basketball, as a
young instructor at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. He
traces the development of the game over the years (43), changes in
rules and method of play. There is, throughout, the spirit of a
fine leader of youth, a spirit which infects those who play the
game and those who watch it. The increasing popularity of
basketball will give this book a place it might not have had a few
years ago. (Kirkus Reviews)
James Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men's
Christian Association Training College in Springfield,
Massachusetts, and felt discouraged because calisthenics and
gymnastics didn't engage his students. What was needed was an
indoor wintertime game that combined recreation and competition.
One evening he worked out the fundamentals of a game that would
quickly catch on. Two peach half-bushel baskets gave the name to
the brand new sport in late 1891. Basketball: Its Origin and
Development was written by the inventor himself, who was inspired
purely by the joy of play. Naismith, born in northern Ontario in
1861, gave up the ministry to preach clean living through sport. He
describes Duck on the Rock, a game from his Canadian childhood, the
creative reasoning behind his basket game, the eventual refinement
of rules and development of equipment, the spread of amateur and
professional teams throughout the world, and the growth of women's
basketball (at first banned to male spectators because the players
wore bloomers). Naismith lived long enough to see basketball
included in the Olympics in 1936. Three years later he died, after
nearly forty years as head of the physical education department at
the University of Kansas. This book, originally published in 1941,
carries a new introduction by William J. Baker, a professor of
history at the University of Maine, Orono.
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