Podcast: 99% Invisible (Episode 199)
This history of basketball. Interesting to sports enthusiasts and to the rest of us!
"In 1891, a physical education teacher in Springfield, Massachusetts invented the game we would come to know as basketball. In setting the height of the baskets, he inadvertently created a design problem that would not be resolved for decades to come."
Listen to "The Yin and Yang of Basketball"
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James Naismith
George Mikan
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