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The 'bible' of basketball to be auctioned

New York (CNN) -- One of the most expensive sports-related documents, Dr. James Naismith's "Founding Rules of Basketball," will be up for auction Friday in New York.

The original rules are 119 years old and still intact. Naismith's youngest grandson, Ian, owner of the pages, will sell the family treasure to benefit the Naismith Foundation for children.

The two pages may go for at least $2 million.

"This is the birth certificate. It started here," said Selby Kiffer, Sotheby's vice president for manuscripts and books department....
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