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Who Invented Basketball?

Posted on August 12, 2020December 17, 2020 by CUBIC Magazine

It is thought that a teacher at a YMCA (youth hostel) in Springfield, Massachusetts in the USA, invented basketball in 1891.

Basketball then became an Olympic sport at the infamous Berlin games in Germany in 1936.

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