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The Holy Grail of Hoops: One Fan's Quest To Buy the Original Rules of Basketball
By Swade, Josh
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Reviewed on July 1, 2013 | Arts and Humanities
Swade (Maggie Vision Prods.), an ardent University of Kansas (Jayhawks) basketball fan, was surfing the web in 2010 when he saw that in a little over a month, Sotheby's would be auctioning off basketball inventor James Naismith's original typed rules of the game, which Naismith had posted on the wall at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, MA, where he was teaching in 1891. To Swade, the rules' logical resting place was at the University of Kansas, wh...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
