The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?

One of the first refinements to the game was to cut the bottom out of the basket so ... The first basketball developed by Spalding in 1894 ... In 1891, the same year that basketball was ...

In his 1952 book “I Grew Up With Basketball,” Basloe wrote the first game was played Feb. 7, 1891 at a YMCA in Herkimer. ... if the game of basketball was invented by Naismith in December of ...

The day was established in 2023 by the United Nations and is observed annually on December 21, the date Dr. James Naismith first introduced the game of basketball at the Springfield YMCA in 1891.

"I want to take you back to the first game of basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891," Paul Putz, author of The Spirit of the Game: American Christianity and Big-Time Sports, told Our ...