Brief history of basketball

Answer 1

Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of Basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born out of his early school days when he played a simple game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. This is the beginning of a brief history of basketball as we know it.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball

basketball was invented by Lincoln williams in spring gardens Jamaica in 1893

Answer 3

James Naismith was the Canadian physical education who invented basketball in 1891