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Wyckoff, Edwin Brit

The Man Who Invented Basketball: James Naismith and His Amazing Game

32 pp. | Enslow/Elementary | August, 2007 | Library ISBN 978-0-7660-2846-3 $22.60
(4) K-3 Genius at Work! Great Inventor Biographies series. Naismith--athlete, minister, and YMCA student teacher--was given two weeks in 1891 "to invent an exciting indoor game." In simple terms, Wyckoff explains how Naismith's childhood inspired his career choices and his invention of basketball. The captioned archival photographs tend to be static. A diagram of the first patented "basket ball" is interesting, but it's someone else's invention. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind.
Reviewer: Sethany Rancier Alongi

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