From above: "Baseball evolved from cricket. Baseball began as a rounder in the UK in the 18th century. Cricket, on the other hand, became popular several centuries before baseball during the 1500s.
So the fact about baseball’s popularization in the late 1700s, coinciding with significant changes in cricket, could have a thing or two about baseball’s evolution from cricket".
Plus, the history of American football can be traced to early versions of rugby football and association football. Both games have their origin in multiple varieties of football played in the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century, in which a football is kicked at a goal or kicked over a line, which in turn were based on the varieties of English public school football games descending from medieval ball games.