Basketball Inventor Hails from Where?

摘要

OK, kids, put away your textbooks—or, more accurately, your wireless-enabled laptop computers with the DVD burners and more hard drive space than the Library of Congress—because it's time for a pop quiz. Where was the inventor of basketball born? Simple, right? The guy who invented the game that made Michael Jordan more recognizable than the Pope, the guy who thought up a game that 300 million people a year would play (one more if you count a certain 46-year-old who's been having recent dreams about lost youth and whose gimpy ankle seems to have experienced a Lourdes-like healing), the guy who dreamed up a game that America loves is a good old-fashioned American, right?