{"product_id":"nais-myth-darril-fosty-9798424797200","title":"Nais-MYTH: Basketball's Stolen Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecond Edition 2025: \u003c\/b\u003e After reviewing all the facts, in 2024, the State of New York passed legislation recognizing Herkimer, NY native Lambert Will and not James Naismith as the inventor of basketball. By doing so, it has brought increased focus on a decades-long debate about the sport's 'true' inventor. This updated edition includes the latest developments in the efforts to correct one of history's biggest lies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOVERVIEW: \u003c\/b\u003e For over seventy years, an ongoing, and at times heated and emotional, debate over the origins of Basketball has persisted. Though the official historical records state the game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian educator from Almonte, Ontario who was teaching at Springfield YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, there are those who believe otherwise. Counter to the Naismith narrative, the research and development of this book provide irrefutable evidence of the game being played a year earlier in the \u003cb\u003eVillage of Herkimer, New York\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as across other small communities of New York State's Mohawk Valley. This book heralds that the game's origins should be credited to a 16-year-old first-generation Austrian-American boy named \u003cb\u003eLambert Will\u003c\/b\u003e, who was a volunteer director of the local Y.M.C.A. and \u003cb\u003ewho invented the game of Basketball\u003c\/b\u003e while tossing cabbages into peach baskets in a root cellar and later at a local General Store in 1890. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBACKGROUND \/ BACK-STORY: \u003c\/b\u003e During the decade of the 1950s, while efforts were underway to establish the Dr. James Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, a bitter war-of-words pitting proponents of Dr. Naismith against those of Lambert Will raged. In the end, the Naismith side, having garnered the support of some within the national media, along with corporate sponsors, major sports organizations, and individuals within professional and collegiate basketball circles, won out. The Dr. James Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame officially opened in Springfield in 1959, with no mention of Herkimer, N.Y., Lambert Will, nor the debate preceding the site's construction. In the eyes of the Dr. James Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and its supporters, the debate was over and their version of history with Naismith as the game's inventor, was cemented in the annals of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the years since, the Herkimer claims and accusations have failed to go away, and the initial evidence has remained a constant thorn-in-the-side of mainstream historians and traditionalists who prefer to promote the Naismith storyline and\/or have profited from the Hall of Fame, Naismith's 13 Basketball Rules document, and the selective branding, and promotion of basketball's origins history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor many Herkimer and Lambert Will supporters, having basketball's creation credited to Springfield and Dr. James Naismith is akin to a \u003cb\u003estolen legacy\u003c\/b\u003e and a disservice to the historical record. These critics of the Springfield and 'Nais-Myth' narrative view the Herkimer-Springfield basketball debate as one that demands resolution and \u003cb\u003ethis book is the historical analysis\u003c\/b\u003e that demands a verdict; and the verdict is to correct the official record by proving that it was Lambert Will who invented Basketball, and the Village of Herkimer, with the support of surrounding communities that formed the game of Basketball. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHISTORIC AND GROUND-BREAKING FINDINGS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 1890 thru 1893, the game of basketball spread along a fixed route, across the four states of New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. This 'Basketball Road' began in Herkimer and moved east to Little Falls, Amsterdam, Albany, Troy, Holyoke, and eventually Springfield. It also moved west to Mohawk, Ilion, Utica, Syracuse, Ithaca, and Rochester ending at Cornell University, and the University of Rochester...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darril Fosty,Brion Carroll,George Robert Fosty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798424797200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Darril Fosty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440475255039,"sku":"9798424797200","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ba6a4524-4ec6-4342-be91-c4a707142a06.jpg?v=1777182679","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nais-myth-darril-fosty-9798424797200","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}