As baseball evolved from the British sport of rounders, volleyball developed from the backyard pastime of catch—notably, the perverse variety of catch that kid brothers play with one another, throwing a ball to deliberately make your brother drop it. It is a tenet of having a kid brother to arrange one's entire life so that everything will seem to be his fault. Likewise, in volleyball, the goal is not so much to do good things, but to do bad things that make your opponent seem worse.