[Ads-l] Antedating of "Basketball"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Perhaps a better citation for the 1891 occurrence of "basketball" would be the following;

1891 James Naismith in _The James Naismith Reader_, ed. Douglas Stark (2021) 197  Basket Ball.

Fred Shapiro



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basketball (OED 1892)

1891 James Naismith _Manuscript_ 21 Dec. 1 (Wikimedia Commons)  Basket Ball.

Fred Shapiro

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