James Naismith was a Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a football ball up and down a court of unspecified
dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach
basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. However,
another decade passed before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to
the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal
was scored. US Patent #1,718,305 was granted to G L Pierce on June 25, 1929 for
the "basketball" used in the game.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/patents-behind-basketball-180971830/
https://www.robinage.com/sports/know-more-basketball.htm
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