The man who invented basketball, Dr. James Naismith, was born in 1861 in a small Canadian township bordering naismith_jamesAlmonte, Ontario called Ramsay.
Inducted in 2006 James Naismith Nov 6, 1861, Nov 28, 1939, was a Canadian-American physical educator physician chaplain sports coach and innovator he invented the sport of basketball in 1891.
