The Birth of a New League
In 1891, Dr. James Naismith was asked to develop a game that could be played indoors during the winter season. After doing some research on such games as, soccer, football, and field hockey, he created what is to be called basketball. From there basketball spread through the cities and even into high schools and colleges. Sendra Berenson tailored the game and added rules to coincide with women’s athletic and physical abilities. It was believed that women could not play at the same pace or intensity that men could, so they had their own set of rules. But it was the women who had the first set of uniform rules for the game, not the men. Though the women had the first set of rules, the men would have the first professional league. Today, women have taken the game to great lengths and refused to be ignored any longer.From the time basketball was invented, some one hundred years ago, only recently there has become a professional league for women. The idea for a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) was introduced to the NBA Board of Governors on April 24, 1996. The NBA Board of Governors approved the idea and the WNBA was set to commence in June of 1997. The twenty-nine member teams of the National Basketball Asso
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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