Did Roger Conant play sports?
Cricket in Roger's Time?
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It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many generations before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century. Possibly cricket was derived from bowls, assuming bowls is the older sport, by the intervention of a batsman trying to stop the ball from reaching its target by hitting it away. Playing on sheep-grazed land or in clearings, the original implements may have been a matted lump of sheep's wool (or even a stone or a small lump of wood) as the ball; a stick or a crook or another farm tool as the bat; and a stool or a tree stump or a gate (e.g., a wicket gate) as the wicket.
Cricket at East Budleigh today
Snow Sleding?
The Bynum Sled
The world famous Bynum Sled by Gary Canant, 400 years after Roger
Ancient Baseball Glove
Gary Canant's ancient baseball glove.
Did Roger play baseball? Nope, the baseball glove had not been invented yet even though it looks old enough.