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Post by renoman on Nov 14, 2006 15:08:50 GMT -5
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- The granddaughter of James Naismith will auction off diaries he wrote in 1891 when he invented the sport of basketball.
The granddaughter, Hellen Carpenter, found those and other personal documents in her basement in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield.
The diaries document the first game of basketball ever played and show that Naismith based the sport partly on a childhood game called "Duck on a Rock."
Carpenter's collection also includes a photo of the first basketball team in history and a copy of Naismith's passport to see the first Olympic basketball game in 1936.
Naismith, a native of Canada, was teaching at a Massachusetts college when he invented basketball. He was looking for a strenuous indoor game that would interest his students.
Carpenter will auction off the papers in December.www.ksdk.com/sports/sports_article.aspx?storyid=107464
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