James Naismith -- Fraud? New evidence suggests he did NOT invent basketball

[torbee]

HERKIMER, N.Y. — One afternoon this spring, Scott Flansburg was walking past the once-stately 19th-century brick buildings that line Main Street here — a hotel, a grocery store, a bike shop, all turned by time into a gyro joint and empty storefronts. He was looking for a building that wasn’t there.

“Here it is,” Flansburg said, gesturing to a parking lot. “You can kind of imagine it.”

It was the site of the old Herkimer YMCA, built in the 1890s but gone since it burned down decades ago. Flansburg and others in town are convinced that this is where basketball was invented — not, as the famous story goes, by James Naismith and his peach baskets 160 miles east in Springfield, Mass., but by a 16-year-old Swedish immigrant named Lambert Will, who tossed cabbages into crates.



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[Nole-4-Life]

Thought he was a guitar player for The Monkees.

 

[General Tso]

HERKIMER, N.Y. — One afternoon this spring, Scott Flansburg was walking past the once-stately 19th-century brick buildings that line Main Street here — a hotel, a grocery store, a bike shop, all turned by time into a gyro joint and empty storefronts. He was looking for a building that wasn’t there.

“Here it is,” Flansburg said, gesturing to a parking lot. “You can kind of imagine it.”

It was the site of the old Herkimer YMCA, built in the 1890s but gone since it burned down decades ago. Flansburg and others in town are convinced that this is where basketball was invented — not, as the famous story goes, by James Naismith and his peach baskets 160 miles east in Springfield, Mass., but by a 16-year-old Swedish immigrant named Lambert Will, who tossed cabbages into crates.



NON-PAYWALL link: https://wapo.st/3xRcgu9

I always had a sneaking suspicion

 

[SoonerBeAHawk]

Copy and paste that bad boy. I hit a paywall.

Wanted to learn about dribbling a cabbage .

 

[Fan In Black]

worst .ciggy. post. ever

 

[onlyTheObvious]

History is full of inventors and explorers that were not truly first. They are famous for perfecting it or establishing an accepted opening to the populous.

 

[SalAunese]

Basketball is for athletes that can’t skate

 

[Douglas C. Neidermeyer]

So, Naismith was credited historically with the first “steal” in basketball?

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Yeah…ok. Next you’ll tell us that Al Gore didn’t invent the internet.

 

[torbee]

Yeah…ok. Next you’ll tell us that Al Gore didn’t invent the internet.

Al Gore's role in transitioning the Internet from a government/education only network into a public one that would massively transform how humans live and work was immense. It's actually a super interesting story once you get past the political posturing and bullshit.

But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet | Origins

When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political pundits and Republicans had a field day mocking him. The amusing humor and misrepresentation of what Gore said hide the deeper issue about the relationship between political patrons and how technologies develop...

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[Nole Lou]

I say whoever finally cut holes in the baskets was the real inventor.

 

[hawkland14]

Al Gore's role in transitioning the Internet from a government/education only network into a public one that would massively transform how humans live and work was massive. It's actually a super interesting story once you get past the political posturing and bullshit.

But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet | Origins

When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political pundits and Republicans had a field day mocking him. The amusing humor and misrepresentation of what Gore said hide the deeper issue about the relationship between political patrons and how technologies develop...

origins.osu.edu

Lol

 

[QChawks]

thugs no defense

 

[fezzador]

Basketball is for athletes that can’t skate

Or hockey is for athletes that can't jump

 

[onlyTheObvious]

Or hockey is for athletes that can't jump

The last sport for middle sized white boys.

great line in movie Youngblood. I might have the quote wrong.

 

[dandh]

Well, duh. It's common knowledge that Mayans and Aztecs played a similar game 1000 years ago.

 

[SalAunese]

Or hockey is for athletes that can't jump

I’d say given their core explosiveness and strength, the vast majority would test out well vertical leap wise, unlike Adam Woodbury

 

[lonestar50]

So now what is Kansas going to be douchy about?

 

[tarheelbybirth]

Lol

Only an idiot would 1) believe Gore ever said he invented the internet and 2) fail to acknowledge the role Gore played in championing the development of the public internet and pushing for it's funding. And here you are.

The people who actually did invent the internet have publicly honored him for his role.

 

[Colonoscopy]

Dammit. I was hoping it was a woman or a minority.

 

[torbee]

Dammit. I was hoping it was a woman or a minority.

It was an immigrant.

Flansburg and others in town are convinced that this is where basketball was invented — not, as the famous story goes, by James Naismith and his peach baskets 160 miles east in Springfield, Mass., but by a 16-year-old Swedish immigrant named Lambert Will, who tossed cabbages into crates.

 

[Colonoscopy]

It was an immigrant.

Flansburg and others in town are convinced that this is where basketball was invented — not, as the famous story goes, by James Naismith and his peach baskets 160 miles east in Springfield, Mass., but by a 16-year-old Swedish immigrant named Lambert Will, who tossed cabbages into crates.

Beggars can't be choosers!

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Or hockey is for athletes that can't jump

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