![]() ![]() And in fact, basketball, one of the most important sports in relation to what we now consider to be sneaker culture was invented for the YMCA to keep men's passions at bay over the winter. And so the idea that you could exercise for moral purpose was hugely important in the middle of the 19th century. So if you think about the founding of the YMCA, which is in the middle of this century, it's founded in England, brought to the U.S., its original impulse was to make sure that the young men who are coming from the country, finding themselves in these cities of sin, would find a way to continue to exercise their bodies but control their morality. and there was fears, like in New York City that all of these immigrants who are working in factories were living cheek to jowl with each other and that they were bringing both moral contagion and physical contagion that exercise could help ameliorate. This is particularly important in the U.S. ![]() All of a sudden, factories were starting to be filled with people coming from overseas. ![]()
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