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Originally Posted by Nickatilynx
sorry its Canadian , so is basketball...baseball is based on the old english game (played by girls) of rounders , and "Football" (spit) is a bastardised form of Rugby.
Don't worry , you are American , I didn't expect you know that.
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http://www.ku.edu/heritage/graphics/.../naismith.html
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 from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.