Just as Romans loved board games like Tabula, they also enjoying playing team games with balls, hoops, and other objects. One game that’s featured in Favorites of Fortuna is the game called harpastum. While we don’t know all the details of the rules or the makeup of the teams, it seems to have been played with a small, hard ball stuffed with feathers that is generally thought to approximate a modern softball. However, there were no sticks or bats; instead the ball was thrown