Author: Lon W. JourdetPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780282401863
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Excerpt from Modern Basketball Basketball-was invented as, an indoor game. In the United States it is still so regarded. It is clearly our greatest and most widely played indoor game. Abroad, however, and especially in Europe and at the 1936 Games, it has been played as an out door game. In 1932 a group of Springfield College men in the Y. M. C. A.'s of various European nations organized the Federation Inter nationale de Basketball Amateur. By 1936 this international basketball federation had grown to a membership representing thirty-three nations, with countless players, probably running into the millions. In the United States alone over basketball rule books are sold annually. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.