In this version of Around the Volleyball World in 100 Days, there was no stop in the United States, where William G. Morgan created the sport at the YMCA in Holyoke, Mass., on Dec. 2, 1895.

If that sounds a whole lot like volleyball, it’s because it is. On February 9, 1895, a man named William G. Morgan invented volleyball, which he called mintonette, at the YMCA in Holyoke ...

Volleyball was invented in Holyoke in 1895 by William G. Morgan, a physical education director at the local YMCA. The city’s International Volleyball Hall of Fame currently has over 160 ...

Volleyball was introduced to Sri Lanka in 1916. Volleyball originally was introduced to the world by William J. Mogen of the United States of America in 1895. Since then volleyball has been spreading.