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Basketball began with two peach baskets

James Naismith invented the game in Massachusetts in 1891

Canadian-born teacher James Naismith invented basketball in December 1891 at a YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. He needed an indoor game for winter and nailed two peach baskets to the gymnasium balcony. The original rules numbered thirteen.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: James Naismith invented the game in Massachusetts in 1891. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 1,090 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.