History

Mold Basketball Club

Mold Magic Basketball Club play out of Mold Leisure Centre on Friday’s. The club was established in 2000 by brothers; James Morgans, the head coach and Robert Morgans the U18 Coach and Senior captain. Over the years Mold have grown considerably and now boast u12,u14, u16, u18 and senior teams.

Currently the club consists of a mixed squad of over 40 players of all ages and abilities, some of our players have played nationally, and for their Country.

Mold Magic are always looking for new talent, any age and ability are welcome.

If you require any information please contact us using the link on the left

Basketball – The Beginning

Basketball was invented in the United States at what is now Springfield College, Massachusetts. At the time Springfield College was the International YMCA Training School and the game was first introduced to a class of trainee YMCA Leaders.

At the time there was a need for a gymnasium activity to offset the flagging interest in apparatus work and freestanding exercise used during the winter months. Canadian Dr. James Naismith, one of the staff at the college, in an effort to make his classes more appealing, introduced various recreational games, such as Association Football, American Football and Lacrosse but each game presented a problem in the confined space of the 65' x 45' (20m x 14m) Springfield YMCA gymnasium.

Naismith gave this problem a considerable amount of thought and decided that the solution lay in taking different factors from known games and combining them to produce a new game. The main features of the game invented by Naismith were: -

a team game
a ball handling game without the use of any implement
the ball was easy to handle, round, light and difficult to conceal
a game played indoors
no tackling
to offset the no tackling, players were not permitted to run with the ball
skill required to score, therefore, the target was placed above head height
equal opportunity for each team
game that demanded skill rather than strength to succeed
game easy to learn
a game anybody could play

The first game of basketball was played in mid-December 1891 at the YMCA gymnasium in Springfield. The goals for this game were peach baskets fixed to the balcony at each end of the gymnasium. Naismith had a Physical Education class of 18 members, so the first game was between two teams of nine-a-side.