Re: Today in history...

[Kim Malo <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I always think of the peach baskets complete with bottoms when I listen to 
some idiot rant about how they should get back to playing the game the way 
Dr Naismith set it up. There also used to be a jump ball after every hoop.

BTW, haven't been out to the newly renovated version, but anyone who hasn't 
been to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield and is ever near enough 
to do it, go. Not just a lot of boring pictures and similar exhibits. 
Plenty of interactive stuff, with supposedly even more of that now. And of 
course LOTS of Cs stuff.

Kim


At 05:00 PM 1/20/03 -0500, James A. Hill wrote:
> Saw this today and thought I'd share.  I did not research the accuracy.
>
>   1891 - Under the direction of Dr. James Naismith, the first basketball
> game was played at the
> International YMCA in Springfield, MA.  Peach baskets with the bottoms still
> in them were used as
> the goals.
>
> It wasn't until 1905 that someone had the bright idea to remove the baskets'
> bottoms,
> thereby eliminating a climb up a ladder after every goal.