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It's usually because of which sports the social elite were playing when sport started to be organised into associations. This then filters down through the rest of society. Therefore, the British colonials brought their sports to various parts of the world, the social elite would adopt them to be more like the British and eventually the sports would open up and catch on with everyone. Similarly, I believe basketball and American football (not sure about baseball, which is virtually identical to rounders) have their roots in American social elite.
In America, immigrants would obviously leave behind their own sports to assimilate.
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