The modern sport of croquet—highly competitive but family oriented—originated in France during the early nineteenth century and was played with a unique mallet. This mallet, in its French peasant form, had a broomstick as a handle.The word croquet is derived from the French word croc, meaning “something shaped like a hook or a crook.”
Cricket, a bat-and-ball game, has long been regarded as the archetypal English game that became popular in British Commonwealth countries.The core rules of the game were formulated in the eighteenth century by wealthy landowners.
Billiards is descended from a fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century northern European lawn game played with balls.
Baseball most likely evolved from the British batand-ball games of cricket and rounders or perhaps from the more ancient English game of stool ball.