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Bobae Choi Famous Celebrity, James Naismith

Dr. James Naismith is the best world-wide known as the basketball inventor. He led an ideal life, consisting of a job that sparked the life of the new fashioned game of basketball. One of his working jobs was to work as a teacher, given an assignment by Luther Hasley Gulick, superintendent of physical education department, was to create a game within a few weeks that would occupy the ruckus in the crazy Britain winter. He was a teacher and leader, always wanting to developing characters through loving and great sports, and zealous to serve society and the community. His gift of basketball is played in over 200 countries in the entire world. James Naismith was born on November 6, 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. He was the son of John Naismith and Margaret Young. In the hard times of the 1820's, the government of Britain arranged for the settlement of its components in particular areas of Canada. Looking that the emigrants pay their own ship passage, the British government agreed to provide tools, blankets, seed, grain and small amount of money to “shove” the settlers over until harvest next fall. James Naismith's ancestors were among the groups of Scottish immigrants to settle in Lanark County, Ontario, near the separations of the Mississippi and Indian Rivers. James' grandparents, Robert and Annie Young, arrived in Canada in 1852. Annie reared eleven children. The fourth of these eleven children was Margaret Young, James' mother, born in Scotland in 1833. A year after the Young's arrived, eighteen year old John Naismith, James' father, left his parents and migrated from Scotland to the Lanark District of Upper Canada. He soon moved to live and work with his Uncle Peter who had arrived in Ramsay Township in 1832.

Born near Almonte, Ontario on November 6, 1861, James was the eldest son of Scottish immigrants, John and Margaret Naismith. In 1869, at the age of eight, James moved with his family to Grand Calumet where his father began work as a carpenter. Orphaned at the small age of nine, when his parents collected a serious deadly typhoid fever while working in the milling place. When their grandmother died in 1872, the Naismith children, Annie, James and Robbie, were left under the care of their strict uncle, Peter Young.

Even though the problems of farm duties, there was still some time to play. In Bennie's Corners the blacksmith shop was the playing spot for the children of the area. Here they liked watching the blacksmith work his materials and playing in the evergreen bush behind the shop. Where as a tree or big rock was like a base, they played different games of tag and hide-and-seek or tried their skill at "duck on the rock" - a game which combined throwing with tag using a large rock to be guarded by the other player.

At first “basketball” was made in Springfield, Massachusetts that Naismith had discovered the loving sport of basketball. Naismith tried to work out the roughness of football and put away the bunching about in soccer and hockey. Making the game as on a tossing rule, he put up two peach baskets on each side of the gym at 10 feet high, and devised 13 simple rules to follow, while using a soccer ball as a throwing “projectile.” Naismith did not want to call the game Naismith, as he was modest and humble, so he “fused” the name to be called “basketball,” because he approved of the name with “basket,” and “ball,” he had gotten the name “basketball,” from one of his trusting students. He boarded on a job in Physical Education through the YMCA, which had taken a long time out to get his Medical Degree while using the Denver YMCA. This led him to accept the positions of Physical Education Director, Campus Chaplain and Basketball Coach at the University of Kansas. He remained there from 1898 until his retirement in 1938. In between, he served twice in military conflict, including WW1 in France, and saw his gift of basketball admitted into the Olympic Family of sports at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. To see the children of the world united to play his game, his gift to people, basketball. It remains the highlight of his career in his words. He died from an extremely bad heart attack or disease on November 29th, 1939. Before his death had happened, his wife had also died, and two years later, he married a widow friend of his named Florence Mae Kincaid. Losing his two homes, even the things the basketball had given him could not work out even with the amount of money he had spent. In his honor, the Naismith Memorial Basketball hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, held him “holy” as a member in 1959. His time is shown in the games played around the world, the portable basketball hoops that are on almost all of the garages, walls and barns in communities' all over the place. And finally, in schools and YMCA's around the world, the first game needing a high roof space for a gym. He is remembered in the communities that he has most been peered up with. James Naismith The ideal basketball inventor: