Why are baseball, basketball, and American football so much more popular than any other international sports, why did they come about, and why has the same situation not occurred anywhere else in the world?
EDIT: I do know the story of why the USA plays American football instead of rugby ( good video here by squidgerugby giving a brief overview https://youtu.be/DrSNe0DIlTw ) but it still doesn't really explain football (soccer) not breaking the market there
So I would challenge the premise here, as certainly for baseball, it is the most popular sport Japan, and has been played there almost as long as in the United States, being played professionally for only a decade less than in the United States, and the current professional league dates to 1936. I've written more about this previously which you can find in this thread. As for basketball and football though, as well as why America doesn't like soccer, I'll leave that to someone else to discuss.