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What Sports Originated In the United States?

July 25, 2020 by Karen Hill

There are at least three sports that originated in the United States.

Basketball, Volleyball, invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts, by William Morgan in 1895, for sedentary businessmen who found the new sport of basketball too strenuous.

Rodeo, first formalized as a sport in Prescott, Arizona.

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About Karen Hill

Karen Hill is a freelance writer, editor, and columnist. Born in New York, her work has appeared in the Examiner, Yahoo News, Buzzfeed, among others.

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