Certain historians, including Bernard Lewis – claim that team sports as we understand as we know them today were primarily the result of Western culture. British Premier John Major was more explicit in 1995:
We invented the vast majority of the world’s greatest sports. …. in the 19th century. Britain was the birthplace of a revolution in leisure every much as significant as the industrial and agricultural revolutions that we initiated earlier in the century.
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The classic team sports are viewed as originating from Britain which was then transferred across the British Empire. European colonialism helped spread certain games across the globe particularly cricket (not specifically connected to baseball) as well as football of different forms as well as bowling in a variety of forms and cue sports (like carom billiards, snooker and pool) as well as hockey and its derivatives, equestrian and tennis, along with numerous winter sports. The primarily Europe-dominated current Olympic Games generally also ensured uniformity in European and, in particular British and British, rules when the rules for similar sports around the globe were combined.
Whatever the origins of games regardless of game origins, no matter the origins of games, Industrial Revolution and mass production resulted in increased leisure time, which meant more time for watching or playing (and betting on) spectator sports, and more equality and accessibility to sports of various varieties. Since the advent in mass media, and global communications professionalism became more prevalent in sports, which helped increase the popularity of sports overall.
With the growing importance put on the winners also resulted in a greater need to bet. Some of the most common ways of cheating today involve the use of performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids. This kind of substances is not a new thing, however, in recent years there have been a number of institutions set up to supervise professional athletes and make sure fair play is played in the game.
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