The novaTopFlex community shall thank—and designate this post to—all the existing and future volleyball 🏐 and basketball 🏀 athletes in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
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Hype for the Future 16C: The Quest to Connect with Volleyball and Basketball
The International Volleyball Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame are two hallmarks of culture in the Pioneer Valley region of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Whether with William G. Morgan or James Naismith, the sports maintain similar cultural values, with volleyball, originally “mintonette,” literally taking the role of a less intense form of basketball, which itself was originally with peach baskets. Both sports were invented within the boundaries of Hampden County, Massachusetts; however, neither of the inventors were born in Hampden County, nor in Massachusetts, nor (in the case of basketball) even in the United States of America. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada, while William G. Morgan was born in Lockport, Niagara County, New York.
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Pioneer Valley: The Surprising Origin Stories of Volleyball and Basketball
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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