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VOLLEYBALL
First Day of Issue: June 11, 1992
First Issue Location: Baltimore, Maryland
In 1895 a game called mintonette was introduced at the
Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke,
Massachusetts. William G. Morgan invented the game
and offered it to local businessmen as an alternative for
the more strenuous sport of basketball. Observing the
volleys fired back and forth across the net, a spectator
suggested that the game be called volleyball — and so it
was. Enormously popular by the early 1900s, the game
was introduced to Europeans by American soldiers dur-
ing World War I. In 1928 the United States Volleyball
Association (USVB) became the sport's governing body
in America and in 1947 joined the International Volley-
ball Federation as a charter member. Volleyball made its
first appearance at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in
Tokyo, with the Japanese women's team and Soviet
men's team receiving gold medals. At the 1984 Summer
Games in Los Angeles, the United States captured its first
Olympic medals in volleyball; the women's team won
the silver medal and the men's team secured the gold.
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