
Robert G. Logan
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Sportswriter, Chicago Tribune. Author of The Bulls and Chicago: A Stormy Affair.
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Basketball, game played between two teams of five players each on a rectangular court, usually indoors. Each team tries to score by tossing the ball through the opponent’s goal, an elevated horizontal hoop and net called a basket. (Read James Naismith’s 1929 Britannica essay on his invention of…
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