Basketball Inventor
how many days did the inventor of basketball spent in springfield,MA?
Naismith lived in Springfield from 1890 to about 1896.
Basketball Invention
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It Started With A Peach Basket (From the Set Shot of Yesterday, To the Slam Dunk of Today…It’s the History of Basketball) VHS VIDEO $55.00 (VHS Video) “Come up with an indoor game to fill in between football and baseball. You have two weeks.” This was the request Dr. James Naismith heard in 1891 while he was the physical education instructor of the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. The janitor had empty peach baskets which Naismith nailed to the bottom of the gym balcony, ten feet above the floor and that’s the only thing that h… |
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Disney’s Flubber $5.83 Robin Williams bounces into the “Absent-Minded Professor” role first played by Fred MacMurray in an energetic and effects-filled remake of the Disney favorite. Williams’ creation of a high-energy, gravity-defying goo with a mind of its own could save the college where he and long-suffering fiancee Marcia Gay Harden work, but a crooked businessman will stop at nothing to learn the secret of Flubber… |
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The Absent-Minded Professor (Widescreen Edition) $4.90 One of the most popular of Disney’s live-action films was this whimsical comedy. Fred MacMurray stars as the addled academian who invents a miraculous anti-gravity substance he calls “flubber” and uses it to propel his school’s basketball team to victory and send his Model T on a flight around Washington. With Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk. 97 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English… |
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The Absent-Minded Professor (Full Screen Colorized) $19.99 Even computer enhanced with unnecessary color, the original, 1961 version of this film is bound to be a hundred times funnier than the bland remake, Flubber. Fred MacMurray is charming as the eccentric college professor who discovers a gooey substance with sustainable energy. Everything about this movie clicks in a way Flubber didn’t, particularly the effort by director Robert Stevenson (a Disney … |
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What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors $10.91 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend and the NBA’s alltime leading scorer, champions a lineupof little-known African-American inventors in this lively, kid-friendly book.Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold pe… |
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How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate $11.04 This book presents lessons from the famous ‘Invention Factories’ past and present. Did you know that the incandescent lightbulb first emerged some thirty years before Thomas Edison famously ‘turned night into day’? Or that Henry Ford’s revolutionary assembly line came from an unlikely blend of observations from Singer sewing machines, meatpacking, and Campbell’s Soup? In this fascinating study of … |
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Basketball (Watts History of Sports) $34.50 Discusses the origins and evolution of the sport of basketball, as well as important events and key personalities in both college and professional versions of the game…. |
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Tex Winter: The Encyclopedia of the Triangle Offense (DVD) $119.99 with Tex Winter, Los Angeles Lakers Assistant Coach Tex Winter has seen and done it all in the world of basketball!Winter doesn’t stake claim as the Triangle Offense’s “inventor,” but takes tremendous pride in being the Triangle’s greatest innovator. In 60 years with the offense, he has developed and modified it to fit many different coaching challenges. The Triangle is introduced by Winter’s expl… |
