I like to play basketball outside.
a great game, invented in 1891 by James Naismith, it is a great game for indoor or out.
Was it invented in America?
yes, while naismith was Canadian, he invented the game in the US.
Interesting, why was he in the US?
he wanted to teach at the international YMCA training school.
Was the YMCA for men only at that time? Since it was back in the 1800s?
I believe so, since 1844 it was the young mens association. 
Were women trying to gain suffrage at that time? Or was that not until the 1900s?
the efforts for suffrage were already begun in Germany in 1904