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Trivially Speaking: 18 students, 2 peach baskets and 1 soccer ball added up to a lasting game

Jim Willard
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On that December day in 1891 when James Naismith, an instructor at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, instructed “Pop” Stebbins (a janitor at the school) to nail two peach baskets — they couldn't find the 18-inch square boxes he requested — to the wooden track above the gymnasium he had no real idea what he had done.
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