A strange little side quest
Put Basketball Papa next to the history of basketball and a few unexpected connections appear. The earliest basketball games used peach baskets, and Naismith wrote 13 original rules for the new indoor sport. The broader history adds one more wrinkle. Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. Grombi files that under: small game, surprisingly large backstory.
