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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Sports and games of various kinds feature largely among Britain's most successful 19C exports. Some were already well-established by that time in Britain, notably *golf and *cricket. Others emerged from the *public schools, in which large numbers of young men needed exercise and discipline. Team games were found to provide both, and the result was organized versions of ancient activities such as *football, *rugby football and *hockey.
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In other contexts new games emerged at the same period from older ones (*squash from *rackets, *snooker from *billiards, and modern *darts from its informal predecessors), while some were invented afresh, meeting the needs of the newly leisured middle classes; examples are *croquet and the trio of lawn *tennis, *badminton and *table tennis. Even *rounders can legitimately claim to have been exported as baseball.
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