Why was basktball invented?
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To Improve Peoples Eye Vision
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I like how ball panel design looks sort of futuristic. The CrossTraxxion technology is definately revolutionary and will change the way basketball will be played. It's expensive for $100, but I think it would be worth every penny.
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Arguably soccer was invented in London in 1863 when men sat down to codify the games that they had enjoyed playing at their "public schools". An association called "The Football Association" was formed. The word "soccer" is short for "Association Football", as distinct from "Rugby Football", which was another sport codified by ex public schoolboys in the late 19th century.\nThere's a pretty clear evidence that some ancient civilizations developed a game somewhat similar to contemporary football. However, the "modern" football (or soccer) was invented in the year 1848 in the Cambridge University by a bunch of students, who were bored by other games and decided to set some rules. The game didn't resemble today's football since catching the ball with your hands was allowed. Despite that, we can say that they were one of the first people who invented the game.
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Soccer it was invented in Egypt and since than it has been around. Plus its played all over the world and it is worshiped by most nations except USA.
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People have been kicking balls about for thousand of years, but soccer (short for asSOCiation football) was invented by public schoolboys in England in the 1860s. (NB You need to know that in England a 'public school' is actually a private, fee-charging school. Go figure!)
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what the hell is fottball?
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Americans began playing baseball on informal teams, using local rules, in the early 1800s. By the 1860s, the sport, unrivaled in popularity, was being described as America's "national pastime." \n\nAlexander Joy Cartwright (1820-1892) of New York invented the modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, devised the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball. \n\nBaseball was based on the English game of rounders. Rounders become popular in the United States in the early 19th century, where the game was called "townball", "base", or "baseball". Cartwright formalized the modern rules of baseball. \n\nThe first recorded baseball game in 1846 when Alexander Cartwright's Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club. The game was held at the Elysian Fields, in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1858, the National Association of Base Ball Players, the first organized baseball league was formed. \n\n1845: Alexander Cartwright published a set of baseball rules for the Knickerbocker Club of New York, and his rules were widely adopted. \n1869: The Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first openly-salaried team and are thus considered the first professional team. \n1871: The first professional baseball league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, was established. \n1876: The first major league, the National League, was formed. \n1878: Frederick Winthrop Thayer of Massachusetts (captain of the Harvard University Baseball Club) received a patent for a baseball catcher's mask on February 12. \nThe History of Baseball - Alexander Cartwright \nBaseball was invented by Alexander Cartwright. \nAlexander Cartwright \nIn 1845, in New York City, the 25 year old Alexander Cartwright took various elements that were used in these different forms of early baseball and, adding a few wrinkles of his own, fused them into regulations that stand today. \n\nBaseball in 1845 \nIt was called the Knickerbocker game or the New York game, and yes, it differed in several respects from what we now know as baseball...but nevertheless it was definitely the basis for the game we play today. \n\nThe History and Evolution of the Baseball Bat \nThe evolution of baseball bats has provided spectators with a more exciting game by changing the sport entirely
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WOW IT MUST BE A NEW SPORT!! \nBASETBALL !! DO U MEAN BASKETBALL OR BASEBALL???\nBASKETBALL- MICHAEL JORDAN\nBASEBALL-ALBERT PUOJOLS!!
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yes james naismith invented basketball. he invented during a summer at YMCA a long ago. he used two peach baskets and a soccer ball.
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It is a good idea, in my opinion.\n\nI don't know who invented it. It isn't relevent. The important thing is that 32 countries are getting together to play ball while everyone is watching it. Peacefully.
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The first version of softball was invented in Chicago, Illinois in 1887 by George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, as a winter version of baseball. It was intended to be a way for baseball players to keep in practice during the winter.\n\nYale and Harvard alumni had gathered at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago to hear the score of the annual football game. When the score was announced, one person threw a boxing glove at another. The other person grabbed a stick and swung at it. Hancock took a boxing glove and tied it into a ball. A broom handle was used as a bat. The ball, being soft, was fielded barehanded rather than with gloves like those which had been introduced to baseball in 1882. Hancock developed a ball and an undersized bat in the next week. The Farragut Club soon set rules for the game, which spread quickly to outsiders.\n\nIn 1895 Lewis Rober, Sr. of Minneapolis organized outdoor games as exercise for firefighters; this game was known as kitten ball (after the first team to play it), pumpkin ball, or diamond ball. Rober's version of the game used a twelve-inch (305 mm) ball rather than the sixteen-inch (406 mm) ball used by the Farragut club, and eventually the Minneapolis ball prevailed, although the dimensions of the Minneapolis diamond were passed over in favour of the dimensions of the Chicago one. Rober may not have been familiar with the Farragut Club rules. The first softball league outside the United States was organized in Toronto in 1897.\n\nThe name softball dates from 1926 (in addition to indoor baseball, kitten ball, and diamond ball, names for the game included mush ball, and pumpkin ball). Standard rules were agreed on only after the formation of the Amateur Softball Association in 1933.\n\nSixteen-inch (406 mm) softball, also sometimes referred to as "mush ball" or "Super-slow pitch" is a direct descendant of Hancock's original game. Defensive players are not allowed to wear fielding gloves; however, a sixteen inch softball is actually soft, and can be fielded safely with bare hands. Sixteen inch softball is played extensively in Chicago, Illinois.\n\nIn the 1940s, fast pitching started to dominate the game. Slow pitch was invented to give batters a better chance to hit the ball.\n\nAfter World War II, Canadian soldiers introduced softball to The Netherlands.\n\nIn 1991, Women's fast-pitch was selected to debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics.\n\nIn 2002, sixteen-inch slow pitch was written out of the ISF official rules, though still played extensively in the United States under Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA) rules.\n\nThe 117th meeting of the International Olympic Committee, held in Singapore in July 2005, voted to drop Softball and Baseball as Olympic sports for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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Racquetball is a sport played with racquets and a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. It was invented by Joe Sobeck in 1949 incorporating rules from squash and handball. Unlike many other racquet sports, the walls, floor, and even ceiling of the racquetball court are considered in-bounds. The game is normally played by two players, though there are variations with three or even four (which can get very crowded). Two player games are called singles, three player games are typically called iron-man (2 on 1 during entire game) or cut-throat (each player take turns serving to the other 2), and four player games are called doubles.
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You are speaking about the TELSTAR design. ( TELevision STAR)\n\nYou can read all about here:\nhttp://www.soccerballworld.com/Telstar.htm\n\nAnd yes, FIFA has a football specification that all balls used for international tournaments needs to meet. In that page you will find allso those specifications.\n\nBut there is not a unique design. The white and black was used to help ball visibility on B&W television. And probably still helps now, even we have big televisors and colors.\n\nBut the "blacks" were changing aver the time.  First some pentagons, later different kind if  draws.. etc
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You know, I find wikipedia to be an awesome site.  Look here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball\n\nThe wiki says:\n\nBasketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules.\n\nSince its invention in 1891, it has developed to become a truly international sport. Many people play basketball all over the world still today. Organized league play originated in the YMCA; early leagues were formed in colleges. Basketball eventually became a professional sport. Even though it was originally a North American sport, it quickly spread internationally and outstanding players and teams are found today all over the world.\n\n...\n\nAnd it goes on from there!  They even have pictures!
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During the 1950s, an Englishman by the name of Christopher Cockerell developed and patented the first hovercraft. For his contribution to the British people and the Queen, he was knighted and named "Sir" Christopher Cockerell. Soon after, British Hovercraft Corporation developed the first commercial hovercraft for passenger transport across the English Channel. With the ability to carry up to 400 passengers and 50 automobiles, these passenger hovercraft have operated since 1968 and have carried more than 30 million passengers and 5 million automobiles.\n\nSafety matches were invented by Johan Edvard Lundstrom of Sweden in 1855. Lundstrom's new match was the first simple and safe way to make a fire. His new safety match could only be lit by striking the match against the specially-prepared surface that came attached to the box. Lundstrom put red phosphorus on the rough striking paper (on the outside the match box); the other fire-starting chemicals were on the match's head. Previous matches gave long-time users an ailment called "phossy jaw;" this was a painful and deadly disease caused by the older matchs' yellow phosphorus that ate into the users' jaws.
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because it's easy to play it in comparaison with other sport.\nthe football ,you can play it by anythink (bottle,small rock,...) but the basketball for example need a specila ball the sme for volleyball,tennis, handball,....\nfor that the footabll start to be teh popular sports in the world
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The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise dating back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries B.C. in China. A military manual dating from the period of the Han Dynasty includes among the physical education exercises, the "Tsu'Chu". This consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30 - 40 cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes - a feat which obviously demanded great skill and excellent technique. A variation of this exercise also existed, whereby the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders whilst trying to withstand the attacks of his opponents. Use of the hands was not permitted. The ball artistry of today's top players is therefore not quite as new as some people may assume.\n\nThe contemporary history of football spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses and the world's first football association was founded - The Football Association in England. Both forms of football stemmed from a common root and both have a long and intricately branched ancestral tree. Their early history reveals at least half a dozen different games, varying to different degrees and to which the historical development of football is related and has actually been traced back. Whether this can be justified in some instances is disputable. Nevertheless, the fact remains that playing a ball with the feet has been going on for thousands of years and there is absolutely no reason to believe that it is an aberration of the more "natural" form of playing a ball with the hands.\n\nMore on the history off the game, check:\nhttp://www.fifa.com/en/history/history/0,1283,1,00.html