The Woman who Invented a Sport in New Orleans
I grew up in Israel, and when I was in grade school, I went to the school right across the street from my house, and took phys-ed classes at the court right around the corner. That is where I learned how to play a lead-up game to volleyball called Kadureshet (netball). Little did I know then that the origin of this game was called Newcomb Ball and that it was developed about a hundred years earlier by a woman, and in a city called New Orleans, where I would find myself as a t