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The James Naismith Reader: Basketball in His Own Words by James Naismith 9781496219015
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12James Naismith invented the game of basketball as a physical education instructor at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. That December of 1891, his task was to... -
Basketball: Its Origin and Development by James Naismith
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41James Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men's Christian Association Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and felt discouraged because calisthenics and gymnastics didn't... -
James Naismith: The Man Who Invented Basketball by Rob Rains
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorRob Rains is a former National League beat writer for USA Today's Baseball Weekly and for three years... -
James Naismith - The Canadian who Invented Basketball - Canadian History for Kids - True Canadian Heroes - True Canadian Heroes Edition by Professor Beaver 9780228236146
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £17.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228236146Author Professor BeaverFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Professor BeaverPublisher... -
The Basketball Book of Why (and Who, What, When, Where, and How): The Answers to Questions You've Always Wondered about Hoops by Wayne Stewart 9781493072767
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493072767Author Wayne StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman... -
Historic Battleship Texas: The Last Dreadnought by John C. Ferguson 9781933337074
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91During the first quarter of the 20th century, the major naval powers of the world built hundreds of Dreadnought-style battleships. Today there is only one. The battleship Texas was for a time the... -
The Origins of the Jump Shot: Eight Men Who Shook the World of Basketball by John Christgau 9780803263949
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.43Before the jump shot, basketball was an earth-bound game. In fact, inventor James Naismith did not originally intend for players to move with the ball. The inspired invention of the dribble first put... -
Phog: The Most Influential Man in Basketball by Scott Morrow Johnson 9781496217059
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Remembered in name but underappreciated in legacy, Forrest "Phog" Allen arguably influenced the game of basketball more than anyone else. In the first half of the twentieth century Allen... -
The Southern Textile Basketball Tournament: A History, 1921-1996 by Mac C. Kirkpatrick 9780786424467
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.49In 1905, Lawrence Peter Hollis went to Springfield, Massachusetts, before beginning his job as the secretary of the YMCA at Monaghan Mill in Greenville, South Carolina. While there, he met James... -
Historical Dictionary of Basketball by John Grasso 9780810867635
Booksplease Price: £113.41In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James... -
Historical Dictionary of Basketball by John Grasso 9781442255333
Booksplease Price: £44.06In less than 120 years an activity invented by one man to alleviate winter boredom for a college gym class has evolved into a worldwide multi-billion dollar enterprise. It is impossible for Dr. James... -
Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America by Randall Balmer 9781469670065
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened,... -
Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball by James Duane Bolin 9780813181066
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.06Known as the "Man in the Brown Suit" and the "Baron of the Bluegrass," Adolph Rupp (1901--1977) is a towering figure in the history of college athletics. In Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky... -
Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years by Robert W. Peterson 9780803287723
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Basketball is now over a century old. Cages to Jump Shots offers an unforgettable glimpse of its exciting and eccentric early years, beginning in 1891 when James Naismith drew up the first rules,... -
I Grew Up with Basketball: Twenty Years of Barnstorming with Cage Greats of Yesterday by Frank J. Basloe 9780803240230
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Frank J. Basloe grew up in Herkimer, New York, where YMCA director Lambert Will developed the game of basketball. Basloe's classic memoir, I Grew Up with Basketball, offers an eyewitness account of... -
Race and Resistance in Boston: A Contested Sports History Robert Cvornyek 9781496232687
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.02Boston is a city known for its sports as well as its troubled racial conflict. But generations of Black athletes, teams, sportswriters, and front-office executives have exercised historic influence... -
The Chosen Game: A Jewish Basketball History by Charley Rosen 9780803255432
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.32A few years after its invention by James Naismith, basketball became the primary sport in the crowded streets of the Jewish neighborhood on New York's Lower East Side. Participating in the new game... -
Senda Berenson: The Unlikely Founder of Women's Basketball by Ralph Melnick 9781558495685
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92In the winter of 1892, the new instructor of physical training at Smith College, a diminutive young woman with a heavy accent, introduced her students to an adaptation of James Naismith's new game of... -
Stories from the Phog: Forty Years of Kansas Basketball Chelan David 9780700640263
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Come along on a 40-year journey of Kansas basketball through the eyes of a hoops fanatic. It can be hard to describe the pull of Kansas basketball to those not in the know. Basketball is an important...