{"id":9448,"date":"2010-12-11T18:46:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T15:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=9448"},"modified":"2010-12-11T18:46:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T15:46:19","slug":"original-rules-of-basketball-documents-sold-record-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/original-rules-of-basketball-documents-sold-record-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Original rules of basketball documents sold record price"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The historic document spelling out the original rules for basketball has fetched $4.3m at auction – a record for any item of sports memorabilia.
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\nThe two, signed typescript pages that set out the 13 rules were drawn up by the sport’s Canadian founder, James Naismith, in 1891.<\/p>\n

The rules were sold by the Naismith International Basketball Foundation at Sotheby’s in New York.<\/p>\n

They were bought by Kansas basketball fans David and Suzanne Booth.<\/p>\n

The sale broke the previous record for sports memorabilia of $3m – set in 1999 for the baseball hit by Mark McGwire when breaking the single-season home run record in 1998.
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Naismith had written the rules to set up a new winter sport for boys at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he was a physical education teacher.<\/p>\n

The school had given him two weeks to come up with a new sport and he finalised it the day before the deadline, pinning the rules on a gym bulletin board.<\/p>\n

The money from the sale will help the foundation in its charity work.<\/p>\n

The buyers hope to display the document, entitled Founding Rules of Basketball, at the University of Kansas.<\/p>\n

Naismith was the first basketball coach at the university.<\/p>\n

He lived to see his invention become an Olympics sport in 1936 and died in 1939.<\/p>\n

At the same auction, President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the freedom of slaves held in southern states during the Civil War and was owned by ex-Senator Bobby Kennedy, fetched $3,778,500.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 8)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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