Rules Naismith sold for more than US $ 4 million at auction

NEW YORK – a historical document that details the original rules for basketball, written 119 years ago as a winter sport for boys from Massachusetts was sold at THE YMCA, more than 4 million dollars in cash to the charity to obtain Friday.

James Naismith wrote 13 rules for physical training of instructors in the Christian Association.

Ian Naismith, James Naismith grandson, contains two original documents outline the rules of basketball. (Getty Images) "Basketball is pure invention," said Nicolas Kiffer, senior specialist in American history documents in Sotheby 's, where they were sold by the rules of the foundation of the international Basketball Naismith.

"It is really the origin, the birth certificate of one of the most popular sports in the world," he said in October, when it was notified of the sale. "It is a sport that has an impact on everything from fashion, such as sneakers, culture, which transcends sports.

The selling price of $ 4.3 million includes the buyer's premium. Proceeds will benefit Naismith Foundation, which supports and provides services to disadvantaged children throughout the world.

I have bought David, Suzanne Booth, which hoped that the rules of the University of Kansas. Is alumnus.

Ian Naismith, founder of the Foundation and grandson James Naismith, told the associated Press in an interview in October, the rules on the auction block and give the money to charity Naismith a series of decisions.

"Dr. Naismith wanted," he said.

James Naismith wrote 13 rules to 21 December 1891, for school education, THE YMCA in Springfield. He had given his two weeks to come up with a new internal activity for its class, the gym and wrote the rules on the eve of this period.

A list of credit to its Registrar, who wrote it is up to two pages, which are connected to the Naismith plaque outside the gym.

He moved to Lawrence, Kan, in 1898, he became the first coach basketball at the University of Kansas. He coached for nine years before, provided that the other academic duties and serves as a Director of athletics.

One of his players was "Phog" Allen Forrest, who went to become known as the "father of hanging out basketball coaches."

Both are memorialized on the campus of the University of Kansas, where the court basketball at Allen Fieldhouse is called James Naismith Court.

Naismith died in 1939, three years after his new game became official in the sport at the 2008 summer Olympic Games 1936 Berlin.