Volleyball
The sport of volleyball was first invented, originally under the name “mintonette,” in the City of Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts. The sport can be accredited to William G. Morgan, whom was actually not born in Pioneer Valley but in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. In any case, however, the sport has evolved largely from the nineteenth-century origins into the modern form of the sport, and the sport had largely also evolved into becoming identified as a less aggressive and less fierce sport and thus seen as lower in the hierarchies, thus resulting in stereotypes that have ultimately resulted in volleyball being sidelined by the dominant patriarchal culture.
Basketball
Though the sport was physically an invention of the City of Springfield, in Hampden County, Massachusetts, the inventor, James Naismith, was actually born not in the United States of America but in Canada, specifically the Province of Ontario. As such, the nation that may claim the invention of basketball could be complicated: Was the invention rightfully of the United States or of Canada? But in all seriousness, basketball is one of the signature features of the notable history—and even modern life—of Springfield, Massachusetts.
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