"The Real Inventor of Basketball" by Richard C. Garvey
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The article "The Real Inventor of Basketball" was written by Richard C. Garvey, who argues that James W. Stebbins should be given credit as the true inventor of basketball, as he provided James Naismith with the peach baskets that ultimately became the sport’s hoops.
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Basketball was created by Dr. James Naismith in 1891 at Springfield College, at the time the International YMCA Training School. Naismith originally was looking to get boxes for the students to shoot the basketball into, but Stebbins was only able to find peach baskets. The article must likely appeared in the Springfield Republican or Union News, where Richard C. Garvey was an associate publisher of the Union News and the Springfield Republican. Garvey also authored “The Springfield College Family Album: Notes and Scenes from Our First Century” (1894) and served as a trustee of the school.
