#springfield massachusetts

[lifeill]

[lizzy413]

I went to all of the shows, but on Sunday I wasn’t supposed to go, but I found a ride to go with an older friend and my brother found me and drag me out of games and lanes, kicking and screaming because one of my favorite bands didn’t play yet.  And it was good times.

[hurtc0pain]

The Big E festival

[2ndblackswordsman]

If Energy drinks were realistic...

[bloodbitts-blog]

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[anal-bravery]

Y'all. Kraft just erected an 8 foot tall monument to its own mayonnaise outside of Merriam Webster's HQ in Springfield in an effort to make "Moist" Merriam Webster's word of the year. It feels like an article from the fucking Onion but this is real life

[magenta-fantasies-illustrations]

This Saturday, I will have a table at Springfield Comic Con! This will be my first time tabling at Springfield Comic Con, and it looks like I have an excellent table space. I haven’t been to Springfield in nearly three years, so I’m looking forward to visiting the city itself. The Mass Mutual Center is right across the street from the MGM Casino, and there are many restaurants in the area.

[unteriors]

Bay Street, Springfield, Massachusetts.

[20th-century-railroading]

Boston & Albany class Kj 1911 ALCO built 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive 551, is seen on the roundhouse turntable at West Springfield, Massachusetts 4-24-1936

Boston & Albany class Kj 1911 ALCO built 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive 551, is seen on the roundhouse turntable at West Springfield, Massachusetts 4-24-1936.

[nansheonearth]

Stargaze Festival is looking for volunteers

Tickets start at 250 so check it out.

Tolland, MA

Northeast USA

[escapismsworld]

📍City library Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America

[lifeill]

[corvidist]

Crows near Springfield

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Dr. James Naismith (6 November 1861 – 28 November 1939), the inventor of basketball, practiced with his wife in 1928.

In 1891, 31-year-old Canadian graduate student James Naismith needed to solve a problem in Springfield, MA, where he worked as a gym teacher at a YMCA (now Springfield College).

His students, forced indoors because of winter, had become rowdy and needed a way to stay in shape.

They had a lot of energy but no way to burn it off. It was too cold to play football and baseball, and too dangerous to play those sports in the gym.

The school asked Naismith to invent a new indoor sport. Naismith remembered a rock-tossing game he played as a child.

How about a game where players threw a ball at a target? The team that tossed the most balls into the target would win.

Naismith called his new game "basketball" and wrote up 13 rules. Two peach baskets and a soccer ball were the equipment.

Naismith put the baskets at each end of the gym, nailed 10 feet above the floor.

The teams each had nine players. Naismith threw the ball in the air for the first tipoff.

On 21 December 1891, the game of basketball was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The new sport quickly grew in popularity. Naismith's students went on to become teachers and coaches, spreading the game.

Teams sprung up at high schools and colleges. Boys and girls across the nation began playing basketball.

Basketball became an Olympic sport in 1936.

For the first Olympic basketball game, Naismith tossed the ball for the tipoff.

The game James Naismith invented as a winter "distraction" had turned into a global sport.

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Basket ball

[scholarofgloom]