The Bounce Heard Round the World

James Naismith

Jun 25, 2025

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3D-rendered book cover for The Bounce Heard Round the World by Glen Munro, showing a vintage basketball with labelled stitching and a portrait of basketball inventor James Naismith on a black background. — *The Bounce Heard Round the World* by Glen Munro

My name is James Naismith.

I was born on the sixth day of November in the year 1861, in the village of Almonte, Ontario, to John Naismith and Margaret Young, both of Scottish stock. My childhood was marked by adversity; when I was but nine years of age, both my parents succumbed to typhoid fever, leaving my …

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