GRANDMOTHERS. KAREN: THESE WOMEN ARE ALL OVER THE AGE OF 50 AND THEY PLAY IN A LEAGUE CALLED GRANNY BASKETBALL. >> WE PLAY THE ORIGINAL RULES FOR WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FROM THE 1920’S, THUS THE OUTFITS.

When the Aetna girls basketball team disbanded before the 1934-35 season, it was big news. This is a team that had won 111 of 133 games since 1924. A team that played at Madison Square Garden in 1928, ...

Some of world’s top players were in the Penn State League, including clubs from Nanticoke and Scranton. The ball – an inflated rubber bladder encased in leather, with stitches over the valve – was an ...

James Naismith, who was born in 1861 laid down the first 13 rules for basketball in 1891, when he was about 10 years younger than LeBron James is now. Although Naismith originally asked for boxes, a ...

In 1918, James Thaddeus Cathey and his wife, Ida Lou Eva Wright, left their productive acreage along Pole Creek in Candler to rent land from Eva’s brother, Zeb, so that their youngest children could ...