Who invented Baseball ?
Baseball is a much older game than you might think.Medieval manuscripts show ball games with bats while a game called "base-ball" appears in a picture published in London in 1744.Baseball is also mentioned in Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey,which began writing in 1798.The game of rounders was first described 30 years later and this or a similar game was known among British settlers in America.Abner Doubleday is sometimes said to have invented baseball in 1839,but Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr drew up the games rules in 1845.He founded the first team,the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of Newyork.
When did Basket ball start ?
The inspiration for basketball may have been the Aztec game ollamalitzli and other ball and hoop games played by South American peoples.The modern game was invented in 1891 by Canadian physical education teacher Dr. James A. Naismith at the International YMCA college at Springfield,Massachusetts. He wanted to find a game that could be played indoors during the winter. Peach baskets were originally used as goals-players had to climb the ladder to fetch the ball after scoring.Then someone hit on the idea of removing the bottom. The baskets were soon replaced by metal rings with nettings.
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