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  the first 13 rules of basketball sold friday for more than $4 million  setting a record for the highest sales price for sports memorabilia  according to sotheby's  which conducted the auction. the auction house had estimated that dr. james naismith's two-page "founding rules of basketball" would bring less than half the $4 338 500 that david and suzanne booth bid for the 119-year-old document. "this is the birth certificate. it started here  said selby kiffer, sotheby's vice president for manuscripts and books department. naismith, a canadian physical education instructor working at a new england ymca, created the game of basket ball" so students could play a sport indoors in winter. naismith had no idea his invention would catch on so rapidly after the ymca movement introduced it on an international level.
article_headline: basketball 'bible' auction sets sports memorabilia record