In December or 1891, James Naismith. (from Basketball for Dummies, pg.27)
They used peach baskets
Because when basketball was first played they used peach baskets. Thus, The name BASKETball.
all i know is that they used to be peach baskets.
When James Naismith invented the game, the hoop was a peach basket WITH the bottom still in it.
The basketball was first discovered by a man named Dr. James Naismith. He taught at the YMCA training school in Springfield Massachusetts. He used peach baskets as the goals. The peach baskets then had the bottoms of them removed so that the ball could swish through the baskets instead of hitting the bottom.
Peach baskets were nailed onto a 10 foot high track. The bottoms were left on the baskets so each time a shot was good the ball would have to be retrieved from the basket.
its hard to day when exactly basketball was created, it was originally made by a peach salesman who used peaches and peach baskets to play.
For the first game of basketball in 1891, two half-bushel peach baskets were used as the goals, which gave the sport its name.
Basketball today is not played with peach baskets anda ladder.
Peach baskets
The first basketball hoop was a peach basket.
Basketball started off with just two peach baskets so I would think so