The James Naismith Reader

Basketball in His Own Words

James Naismith (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

282 Seiten

2021
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496219015 (ISBN)

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James 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 create a game to occupy a rowdy class during the winter months. Almost instantly popular, the game spread across the country and was played in fifteen countries by the end of the century. And yet basketball never had an overriding presence in Naismith’s life, as he was also a minister, doctor, educator, and coach.
So what did Naismith think about the game of basketball? In The James Naismith Reader, Douglas Stark answers that question using articles, speeches, letters, notes, radio interview transcripts, and other correspondence, including discussions on the game’s origins, Naismith’s childhood game duck on a rock in Canada, the changing rules, basketball as a representation of Muscular Christianity, and the physical education movement. From Naismith’s original rules written in 1891 to an excerpt from the posthumous publication of his book Basketball: Its Origin and Development, Naismith’s writings range over a fifty-year period, showing his thoughts on the game’s invention and as the game evolved during his lifetime.
The first volume to compile the existing primary sources of Naismith’s views on basketball, The James Naismith Reader reveals what its inventor thought of the game, as well as his interactions with educators and instructors who assisted the game’s growth.

Douglas Stark is the museum director at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. He is the author of four books, including When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game (Nebraska, 2017) and Wartime Basketball: The Emergence of a National Sport during World War II (Nebraska, 2016).

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Huh! Another New Game!”
1. Origins, Growth, and Development
2. Physical Education
3. Rules
4. Basketball in Canada
5. Correspondence
Notes on Sources
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	12 photographs, 1 illustration, 1 table
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781496219015 / 9781496219015
Zustand	Neuware