#SportsHistory

Sharing bits of Canada 'eh🇨🇦Canadian_Eh@mas.to
2025-05-01

James Naismith: Inventor of Basketball

Did you know basketball was invented by Canadian James Naismith in 1891? While teaching in Massachusetts, he created the game to keep students active indoors. Now, it’s a global phenomenon! 🏀

🇨🇦 #Canada #SportsHistory #Inventions

thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

A vintage black and white photograph shows James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, standing between two wooden peach baskets. He is dressed in a suit and tie, holding a basketball. The image, courtesy of Library and Archives Canada (C-80002), depicts Naismith during his time as an instructor at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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2025-04-28

Gatorade 'The History of Winning' commercial

Video Gatorade 'The History of Winning' commercial, actor, actress, girl, cast, song

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On April 15th, 1947 the Brooklyn Dodgers signed #JackieRobinson. The history of Black baseball players is marked by segregation and the establishment of the color line, which excluded them from #MLB until Jackie Robinson. Prior to this, notable players like Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother Weldy played in the major leagues in the 1880s. But none played in the Majors between 1884 and 1947.

#Baseball
#History
#SportsHistory
#MajorLeagueBaseball
#42

Picture of Jackie Robinson, baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
2025-03-31

On this day in 1906, the IAAUS (now NCAA) was founded to reform college sports after 18 football deaths in 1905. Theodore Roosevelt’s push for safer rules saved the game.

Learn more: dailysportshistory.com/episode

The Conversation U.S.TheConversationUS@newsie.social
2025-03-28

A new Women's Pro Baseball League is set to launch in 2026 with six teams in the northeastern US. With over 500 players from 11 countries registered, scouting and drafts are on the horizon: theconversation.com/women-are-
#SportsHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #openingday

2025-03-18

On this day in 1985, MLB reinstated Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle after years of exile for working with casinos. Two icons, unfairly banned, finally welcomed back. ⚾🔥 Justice served!
🎙 dailysportshistory.com/episode

2025-03-13

On this day

Lance Mackey made history! He became the 1st musher to win both the Yukon Quest & Iditarod in the same year—a feat never done before. A true underdog story of grit & resilience. ❄️

🔗 More: dailysportshistory.com/

2025-03-04

On this day in 1990, the sports world was shaken by the tragic loss of Hank Gathers, the star player from Loyola Marymount University.

Dive into this emotional journey

dailysportshistory.com/episode

 

2025-02-24

Heritage Fund: Capturing memories from four decades of the Island Games. “Taking place every two years, the competition has gone from strength to strength since the very first Inter-Island Games on the Isle of Man in 1985. A total of 28 different islands, island groups and territories from around the world have taken part. … Our funding – awarded to the Sporting Memories Foundation […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/24/heritage-fund-capturing-memories-from-four-decades-of-the-island-games/

CaledonMoneypit 🇨🇦paulbusch@mstdn.ca
2025-02-15

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1936, Great Britain was awarded a Gold Medal in #Hockey at the 1936 ##WinterOlympics. It broke the streak of 4 straight Olympic wins by Canada, losing to a team that was 50% Canadian. The back story is fascinating and worth the long read, full of tidbits like: GB forward Gordon "Don" Dailley, who fought in the WWII, was one of the first to find Hitler’s bunker, burning his body with petrol.

#CanadaIsAwesome #SportsHistory
eurosport.com/ice-hockey/fasci

2025-02-05

#DidYouKnow that #soccer in #Australia is at least 150 years old this year!

An early match took place at the #Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum in suburban #Brisbane, on 7 August #1875, when a team of inmates and wards men from the asylum played against the visiting Brisbane Australian rules football club.

📜ℹ️ For More History: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_i

#AustralianHistory #AusHistory #SportsHistory

2025-01-10

Finally releasing this research into the wild. Years ago I was deep into horse racing results from 1839 to 1845 using #TroveAU and it paid off. No back to the future wins 👀 but recovering forgotten historical context for a watercolour of the Adelaide Races by John Michael Skipper.

I identify this picture as a race for "gentlemen riders" on New Year's Day 1839 featuring a uniformed Captain Charles Berkeley. (This is a side outcome of the #S_T_Gill project.)

#Adelaide #historyAU #colonialArtAU #sportsHistory #horseRacing
New Article: coombe.id.au/1840s_South_Austr

Miguel IturrateMIguel_Iturrate
2024-11-21

medium.com/@migit1970/boxing-h

Looking at racism circa 1910 through the prism of Jack Johnson and the boxing heavyweight championship.

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