Nais-MYTH Basketball’s Stolen Legacy by George & Darril Fosty with Brion Carroll

Description For over seventy years an ongoing, and at times heated and emotional, debate over the origins of Basketball has persisted. Though the official historical records state the game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian educator from Almonte, Ontario who was teaching at Springfield YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, there are those who believe otherwise. Counter to the Naismith narrative, the research and development of this book provide irrefutable evidence of the game being played a year earlier in the Village of Herkimer, New York, as well as across other small communities of New York State’s Mohawk Valley. This book heralds that the game’s origins should be credited to a 16-year-old first-generation Austrian-American boy named Lambert Will, who was a volunteer director of the local Y.M.C.A. and who invented the game of Basketball while tossing cabbages into peach baskets in a root cellar and later at a local General Store in 1890.