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James Naismith invented basketball with a particular purpose in
mind: to further the cause of "muscular Christianity,"
which held that sport and exercise are essential to a clean, well-rounded,
God-fearing life. More than a century later, one piece of that strategy—to
tucker out young men so they can’t follow their natural inclination
to make mischief—had become enshrined in scores of midnight
basketball leagues, founded in inner cities across the country.I went to Kansas City to learn more about Mayor’s Night Hoops, the program begun by former mayor Emanuel Cleaver, who had since returned to his pulpit at St. James United Methodist Church. Here is Doc Naismith, astride a horse in France during World War I, where he became as confirmed as ever in his belief that idleness leads to no good.  TWENTY-SEVEN:
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