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A COURT USED FOR PLAYING HOOPS SINCE 1893…

NewsBy ymcaeuropeApril 18, 2017

YMCA France claims that its basketball court it is the oldest one in the world, continuously functional since the building opened in 1893, less than two years after James Naismith invented the game at a Y.M.C.A. in Springfield, Mass.

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