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Basketball Hall of Fame
museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Also known as: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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association with Springfield
- In Springfield
The city’s Basketball Hall of Fame commemorates James Naismith, who invented the game of basketball in Springfield in 1891. Eastern States Exposition Park in West Springfield is the site of one of the largest annual (September) industrial-agricultural fairs in the eastern United States; Storrowtown (a reconstructed old…
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induction of Wooden
- In John Wooden
…to be elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach. The John R. Wooden Award annually honours the nation’s outstanding player as chosen by a media poll. Wooden, with Steve Jamison, wrote two books on lessons from his experience as a coach:…
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