A spinning coin is a circle and is not a sphere.

I still maintain some hope for the future, in that some still have children that live.

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I have yet to meet him but I know a crowd of fans who would love to.
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There are 3 topics he does not take up: Immorality (avoiding the world of sex jokes), Politics, and Taking Pleasure in the Pain of Others.
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The rest is pretty much up for grabs.
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They say he got started really young, around age 7 ..........................
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But he wasn't always so good at spelling ("age sevun").
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For artists or would-be cartoonists - notice the simple linework but precision where it matters, like the net's grid pattern is interrupted where the HEAD of the other player's standing in front of it, and the pole precisely interrupts the right leg and arm of another player on the opposite side, but the elbow of the figure holding the severed head intersects the left arm of the same player. Follow the line of the horizon (good exercise for flat-earthers!!) and see that where essential, the line stops just before running into some figures but doesn't stop for others so as to lend a hint of childlike immaturity to the scene. He was a very good imitator of what viewers would expect for a child, even at "age sevun."
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By the way, the ball shape in the foreground is not "the ball," it's a globe. See the longitude lines drawn on it? A very subtle globe earth cartoon!!
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I had expected that someone would challenge my suggestion that the ball in the foreground is rather a globe. 
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The point is, the figure drawn there does not look like any volleyball design. They make volleyballs to appear obviously different from basketballs to make it harder to grab the wrong ball for a game. Volleyballs have a different texture, different color, different size and different seam pattern. 
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They usually have the same general pattern in the seams, but newer versions sometimes have different colors:
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When the ball's in motion you see the opposing directions of the panels, this one has two regions separated by a squiggle center band:
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Another concept ball:
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But none of them look like a basketball.
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And Larson's ball doesn't look like a basketball, either:
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