WEBVTT - Roberto Clemente & Jesse Owens 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.960 Hey Elliott, Oh, hey, be what's with the treadmill and 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:07.800 the baseball bat? Well? Today's historical figures are Hall of 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:12.200 Fame baseball player Roberto Clemente, an Olympic runner Jesse Owens, 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:15.920 and I have been inspired. I want to get as 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.200 good at track and field and baseball as they were. Wow. 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.119 That's a great goal. But keep in mind it took 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.400 years of practice to get as good as they were. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:26.759 I know, why do you think I'm going to hit 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.440 a few home friends ball running on the treadmill. Use 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:34.680 your noggin, but that sounds remarkably dangerous, Meka. No one 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.080 ever said being one of the best is safe. Now 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:39.600 be a Georgia peach and turn on that pitching machine 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.279 for me. Some people got to learn it the hard way. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.879 I guess whoa These baseballs are like like they come 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.360 at a fast No, no, no, no, I got this. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:56.760 Next one is mine. Oh I think we broke Old 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:02.360 Man McCaffrey's window. We you turn on the pitching machine. Hey, 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.759 who's basi? BOLLI is this? You're gonna pay for that window? 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.640 Let's get out of here. Eric, please play the theme song, 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:14.240 Hey Jake back here, Hey you Kings in your history 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:21.679 based trivia podcast. Here we go. What do you think 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:26.520 you know about the rates from this story? The game 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.880 is on. 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And welcome everyone 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.800 to the Who Was? Podcast. This show is like Jeopardy, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.920 only with surprise guests, silly games, and our own library. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:23.320 Hey Elliott, check out this book. Okay, it's due in 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.400 three weeks. Our contestants were sent who Was books about 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.720 two great figures from history. Now they're here to show 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.360 off their knowledge and the hope, So we ain't fantastic Pride. 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:39.080 Today we're discussing two sporty gents, Roberto Clemente and Jesse Owens. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.720 But before we get to know them, let's get to 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.960 know our contestants. Alright. First up, we have Fryce Frice. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:50.639 Please introduce yourself. Which Bryce, I like to play basketball. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.880 I'm a goal forward two and well for one historian, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:58.960 and my favorite basketball player is Steph Curry. Oh wow? Okay, 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.200 So have you thought of combining your love of World 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:07.360 War One and World War two? Um knowledge with basketball? 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.880 And what kind of game would that be? I don't know. 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.600 Let me pitch the idea to you. Okay, you've got 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.160 trenches in the court like in World War One, very dangerous. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:22.560 You gotta dribble the ball over or around those? Uh? 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.280 And then actually that's dangerous enough. I don't want to Then, 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.400 I don't want to start adding explosions and things to 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.440 a basketball game. Although I don't know. We'll talk about 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.359 it later. We'll talk about it later, Brians. How does 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.160 that sound to you? Okay? All right, I think he's 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.200 into it. Cool. All right, Well, thank you for being 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.440 here today, Brice, and with us today we also have Luca, Luca, 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:46.440 please introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Luca. I say them pronouns, 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.120 and I like baking and books. All right? What are 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.040 the things that you what are your go to baking things? 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.440 And do you ever think about combining your love of 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.360 baking and books and read about baking or baker book? Yeah? 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:06.480 I knew you would say that out too predictable. One 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.440 of my favorite things to read is cookbooks. Um, And 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.360 one of my favorite things to bake is a vegan 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.960 chocolate cake for a MC hot from the A M 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:23.200 C Huts. What's not? Um? There hots in the Appealation Mountains. Uh, 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.680 there are eight of them and I'm trying to go 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.200 to all of them by the time I'm thirteen and 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.520 I've done I think five. Oh my goodness, Wow, you're 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.320 well on your way. Wow that sounds like a mean 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.080 vegan take. Can't wait to get one of those in 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.000 the mail because because I know you'll be sending them 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.560 to us right same here here for the record, Luca 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.160 is shaking their head. Yes, okay, yeah, we all saw it. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.920 I'm shaking my head. No that's not the way. That's 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:54.760 not the way we saw it. And I just can't 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.840 wait to open up that package and pull out that 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.719 cake and cut a slice and find a book inside 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.240 as you because you baked a book inside. I think 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.520 you should go to the eye doctor. I'm definitely shaking 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.880 my head. No, the eye doctor said I wasn't allowed 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.200 to come anymore because IVE got too many questions wrong. Anyway, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.280 thank you both for joining us, and thank you to Eric, 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.200 our musician, for providing that lovely Meet the Contestants music. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:18.080 So that's who is Bryce and Luca. Now let's find 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:24.040 out who was Jesse Owens with four fast facts cospects. 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.840 Jesse Owens was born in nineteen thirteen and died in 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.120 nineteen eighty. Jesse Owens set three world records in track 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.320 and field and tied another in less than an hour 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.680 at the Big Ten Championships In nineteen thirty five. The 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.919 Associated Press named him the greatest track athlete of the 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.200 first half of the twentieth century. Jesse Owens screw up 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.479 during the era of Jim Crow laws. These were laws 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.960 that prevented black people from being treated equally and having 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:54.440 the same opportunities that white people had. Cospects, all right, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.880 So I am wondering, so, um, Bryce, you like basketball 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.440 and what position. Do you point guard? Blankard? Okay, so 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.880 you're you're handling the ball a lot. You're guarding the 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.599 person who's pointing at the ball and saying it's over there. Bryce, 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.560 do you have any tips for if I have to 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.080 do a free throw? Do you have any tips of 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.760 how to how to make this swish? Sometimes if you're 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:17.920 going through the swish, the ball can balance off and 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.600 sold Document arming for the backboard, Amy for the backboard. 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.000 All right, good good. I think the first step is 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.120 to start playing basketball. I don't know. That sounds like 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.040 a lot of work. I'd rather just do the swish, 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.800 you know what I mean? Yeah, that's the fun part. Luca, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.839 do you play any sports at all? No, Baking. Baking 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.040 can be a sport. You sweat a lot in the kitchen. Well, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:39.960 be likes to bake inside of a bigger of it 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.560 that she can feel what it's like to be the cake, 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:46.120 So it gets very hot there. I'm very empathetic baker. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.480 So that was a great a great tip from Bryce 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:52.839 and some great criticism from Luca. Let's be let's get 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:59.320 right to our first game. True or false? False? It's 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.840 a false? Was a true? True? That it is false? 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:07.520 It was true or true? True or false. Here's how 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.240 this game works. Be will read a statement about Jesse Owens, 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.160 and you'll tell us if it's true or false false, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.880 twist ending surprise. And since this is our first game, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.080 each question is worth one point. Bryce, You'll be going first, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.560 all right, Bryce? True or fault. Jesse Owens was an 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.760 only child. False, that's right, the answer is false. Jesse 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.040 waste and the youngest child of Henry and Emma Owens. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.040 Life was difficult for the Owens family. The entire family 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.280 lived in a three room wooden house where wind would 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.600 blow between the wallboards. The children crowded into two rooms 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.480 to sleep. There weren't enough beds. Some slept on the floor. 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.000 Jesse knew his life was hard, but as he once said, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.960 we had a lot of fun. We always a Luca, 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.880 You're up next? True or false. Coach Larry Snyder at 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:58.200 Ohio State University was Jesse's first track coach. True, I'm sorry, 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:02.400 that's false. Jesse met Charles Riley, a teacher and the 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.760 track team coach at Fairmont Junior High. Coach Riley watched 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.600 Jesse running on the playground and saw something special. He 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.200 worked with Jesse before school, showed Jesse how to run 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.240 smoothly and easily, and also welcomed Jesse into his home 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.720 and invited him over for dinner. Jesse later said that 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.000 coach Riley was the first white person who had ever 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.800 really known Bryce. You get the next true or false? 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.360 True or false? Jesse Owens won four gold medals at 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:31.360 the nineteen thirty six Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. That's right, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.080 the answer is true. Jesse Owens was the first American 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.840 athlete ever to win four track and field gold medals 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.760 at a single Olympics. Many Americans wanted to boycott the 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.400 Berlin Olympics, which meant not sending over athletes and not 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.160 paying attention to it. They feared participating would give power 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.120 to Aidolf Hitler, who was in charge of Germany at 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.280 the time. Jesse and many other athletes didn't want to boycott. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.640 Jesse's coach said that by competing in the Olympics, Jesse 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.280 quote could show Hitler what a black athlete could do. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.880 A vote was held by the American Athletic Union and 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.360 the result was to send the team. Jesse made history 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.400 winning four gold medals and Luca, you have the last 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.640 question of the round, true or false. After the Olympics, 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.680 Jesse was paid to fly to Cuba and raise a 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:16.720 horse named Fulio Macaw. False. I'm sorry, that's true too. 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.560 While winning gold in the Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens received 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.560 job offers and opportunities for paid appearances back home, but 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:26.480 when he returned, nearly every offer disappeared. Jesse said it 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.040 became increasingly clear that everyone was going to slap me 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:30.719 on the back. I want to shake my hand or 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.560 have me up to their hotel suite, but no one 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.160 was going to offer me a job. White olympians appeared 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.800 in movies or were paid to promote products. Black athletes 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.000 like Jesse, However, a few such opportunities. He later said, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.800 people said an Olympic champion should not race a horse, 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.040 but it can't eat four gold medals, and that's true 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:52.120 or false? True? True, true or false? That was a 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.480 great round, everybody. I'd say, we all learned a lot. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:10:00.760 And next up is next up is um cut? Next 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.720 we have Elliott? What's up? Be that gust of wind 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.440 scattered my script everywhere? I'm not sure what's next. Well, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.559 there's something you don't usually see indoors my bad. Sorry 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:17.400 about that, Jesse. Always that's right courtesy of the Who 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:24.920 was that? Who? You want to be somewhere? Best? You need? 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.120 What brings you to the show? Jesse? Well my ears 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.920 were burning? Oh because you knew we were talking about 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.080 you on the show. No, it was because I was 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.840 running so fast. It happens every now and then. So 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.200 I ran to the fire department, as I do. But 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.960 I oways shot by a few blocks. Also happens every 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.520 now and then. And here I am, which does remind me. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.079 You wouldn't happen to have a bottle of water on you? 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:57.199 Oh yeah, of course, Here take mine. Oh I appreciate you, 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.360 that's the stuff. I'm sorry I used up all your 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:05.280 water on my ears. Be right back here you go. 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:10.400 Not necessary? Oh wow, and it's still so cold? Oh thanks? 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.360 Wow wow wow wow. No wonder you could outrun a 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:16.960 horse made two grand on that stunt. Hey, can I 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:19.200 ask you a question? I'd be happy to give you 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.600 an answer. Could you outren a card? I'm sure he 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:29.120 doesn't want to just answer. Depends on the car Afford fusion. Sure, okay, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.560 what about what about a Lamborghini? But I'm sorry, I 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.360 just got a little excited. Just because I didn't want 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.120 to ask the question doesn't mean I didn't want to 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:39.160 know the answer to the question. Oh absolutely, but i'd 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:45.680 break a sweat. Okay, what about a BMW? I could, 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.480 but I don't need to beat up on Germany again. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:53.960 Oh okay, what a balance. Let me simplify this for you. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.679 Here is a list of everything I can out run. Wow, 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:03.600 that's hold on, it's going the longest paper I've ever seen. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:07.680 Let me just give you a sample here. I cannot 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.080 run the fox and not this spread of chickenpox and 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:15.280 a pair of feet wearing sandals. Oh, I thought you 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.360 were gonna say socks. Now why would you think that? 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.000 Because it rhymes with all the other words you listed? Huh, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.440 I guess so. But this is a list, not a poem. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:30.760 That may I continue? Oh? Please, thank you? I cannot 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.040 run a beagle, an eagle, a quick paralegal, and the 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:39.520 queen who looks really regal fancy Elliott, I appreciate you 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.360 and all, but this is a long list here, so apologies, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:48.440 Mr Owens, please continue. Elliott, please just let him read 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.559 the list. I'm trying, but the rhymes are right there. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:56.440 She's our just I cannot run a whale, a quail, 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.480 both Chip and Dell in the boat that comes with 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:04.720 us motor. I can out run a breeze, a sneeze, 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.760 a big swarm of these, and the mouse running for something. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:13.160 Peanut butter. Nice love peanut butter. Of course they do 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.760 they sure do you know. It's been fun talking to 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.280 you both, but I better get going. I'll leave the 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:20.920 list hand and you can read through it on your 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.599 own time. Thanks for having me, and thanks to the 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:29.959 who was that? Who? Nice guy? And hey look it 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.960 says here he can out run a hair, a mare, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.560 a big grizzly bear and the famous French author Proust 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:44.000 No voltaire, Elliott it rides Okay, I definitely need a break. Eric, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.440 would you please play us some track and field music please? 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:56.960 Running and jumping? Well, come back to the Who Was podcast? 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.520 Today we're learning lest Roberto Clementa and was Jesse Owens? 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.640 Now back to your host, Elliot Kalen. Thank you be. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.640 Now let's make like Jesse Owens and run over to 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:14.559 producer Jane with the scores. Hello, Elliott and b I've 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.760 got to tell you Bryce has raced ahead with two 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.920 points to Lucas No point. Yet, that's right, still early 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.920 in the game. Is still a close game. But before 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:26.560 we get to the next game, and I like to 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.680 say the word game instead of a lot, let's find 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:36.280 out who was Roberto Clemente with four fast facts. Roberto 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:39.360 Clemente was born in nineteen thirty four in Puerto Rico 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.360 and died in nineteen seventy two. Roberto Clemente was signed 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.560 to the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team when he was just 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.720 twenty years old, and was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.840 the following year. He'd played for the Pirates for many years. 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:56.400 Roberto Clemente won four National League batting titles, competed in 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.000 two World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and was named 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.040 the greatest right fielder of all time. Roberto Clemente was 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.000 elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in nineteen two. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.200 And now it's time for our next game. That's right, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:22.479 we'll be playing hashtag history. Hashtag history, hashtag history, hashtag history, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:27.880 hashtag history. Okay, contestants in this game, B will read 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.840 you a hashtag Roberto Clemente might have used on his 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.520 social media if they had social media when he was alive. 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.080 And you will tell us what it's about. And since 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.200 this is our second round, each question is worth two points. B. 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:44.560 If you would please begin, Luca, this first question is 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:50.160 for you. The first hashtag is hashtag my commute. Would 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:54.120 Roberto use that hashtag because A he loved returning to 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:57.480 Puerto Rico in the off season or be he loved 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:02.200 car pooling with his teammates A. That's right. The answer 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.920 is A. Roberto would play baseball in Pittsburgh in the 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.200 summer and return home to Puerto Rico where it was 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.680 still warm, and played baseball in the winter. But that 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.400 isn't the only reason would return home. Roberto was homesick 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.880 while living in Pittsburgh. He missed his friends and family, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:16.440 and it was difficult for him to get to know 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.640 his new teammates on the Pittsburgh Pirates as he was 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.880 still learning to speak English. Bryce. This next hashtag is 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:26.520 for you, all right, Bryce. This hashtag is hashtag baseball fever. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:31.480 Would Roberto use that hashtag because A. Once Roberto caught 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.520 the flu from an improperly cleaned baseball bat or be 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:41.240 Growing up, Roberto played baseball every single moment he could B. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.600 That's right. The answer is be. Roberto and his friends 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.320 and his brothers played baseball after school and on weekends. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.600 They even made their own gear. Roberto formed baseballs by 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.800 wrapping old socks or rags very tightly with string, then 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.360 sowing a piece of cloth over the socks. He once 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.560 played a seven and a half hour game with his 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.840 friends where he hit ten whole runs. Roberto's mother, Luisa, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.639 worried about his love of baseball, saying there were times 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:06.600 he was so much in love with baseball that he 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.200 didn't even care for food. Luca, here's the next hashtag 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:14.720 for you. The next hashtag is hashtag pitch in and help. 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.399 Would Roberto use that hashtag because A he was a 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:22.520 star pitcher who always helped win games. Or be. From 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.800 the time he was a boy, he was known as 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:29.320 someone who was always willing to help out. B. That's right, 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.040 The answer is be. Roberto enjoyed helping people and helped 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.639 his community from an early age. When he was fourteen, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.160 he crossed a dangerous highway to put an injured person 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.920 from a fiery car accident. As an adult, he led 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.120 baseball clinics and visited kids in hospitals. He was important 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.359 to him to help young baseball players in Puerto Rico. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.119 Roberto once said, if you have a chance to accomplish 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.560 something that will make things better for people coming behind you, 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:55.240 and you don't, you are wasting your time on this earth. Harsh, Roberto, 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.280 but fair, but very fair. Okay, Bryce, bring us to 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.080 the home plate. This last one's for you. Your final 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:05.800 hashtag is hashtag family guy. Would Roberto use that hashtag 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.600 because A he had great pride and love for his 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.080 wife and kids, or be he always wanted to create 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:16.080 a successful cartoon. Ay, that's right. The answer is a. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.359 Roberto and his wife Biera had three boys, Roberto Junior, 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.160 Luis Roberto, and Enrique. Roberto Junior later remembered people coming 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.080 to their house all day long to meet his father, 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.520 and Roberto Senior would greet each stranger. Beer said he'd 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.040 even avoid other commitments to spend time with his family, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.520 and there'd be no baseball talk in the house, which 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.080 was very hard because as we know, he had baseball fever. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.320 Is probably his favorite thing to talk about. And that's 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:47.360 hashtag history. Hashtag history hashtag. Okay, we're going to take 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.320 a quick break, but we'll be back with the scores 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.159 and our final game. Eric, would you please play us 0:18:52.240 --> 0:19:02.760 some after school baseball music plays. It's a pastime, past time, Sally, 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:07.200 who was there? Marie Curie? You may remember me from 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:11.359 winning multiple Nobel prizes, or perhaps from my episode of 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:15.280 the Worst Podcast where I played myself. I wanted to 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.960 take a moment to read one of my favorite reviews 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:22.280 about the Who Was Podcast. This is from Shaken Bay 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:26.440 and it reads loved this Me and my little sister 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:31.080 love this show more. Please. Our faith is Ariet Toman. 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:33.960 If you want to hear your review right on the air, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.000 make sure to subscribe, like and review to the Worst 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.960 Podcast in the I Heart Radio up or wherever you 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:49.560 give your podcasts revoir or should I stay abbiato? Welcome 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.439 back to the Who Was? Podcast. Today we're talking about 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:56.399 Roberto Clemente and Jesse Owens. Now back to your host, 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.520 Elliott Taylan. Thank you be. We've got a real nail 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.440 biter of a game going, so without further ado, let's 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.840 go over to Cruiser Jane, who has the latest box scores. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.439 I said box scores because of baseball Jane, real scores. 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.600 I don't know what that is, but I do know 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:18.240 that my good pal Bryce has six points and Luca 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.840 has come up from zero to four. Thank you, Jane. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.159 Still a very close game that didn't rhyme it exactly 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.840 but almost so close enough but almost that. But that's 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.640 good enough for me, even though it's not great. And hey, 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:36.560 it reminds me of our final game, Converge of Greatness. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:46.920 And I'll just get my speech ready for when I 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.119 picked up in a word for how great that segue 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.520 was between the scores and the game. Now, that is 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.760 what I call the home run. Thank you very much, Be, 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:58.080 thank you. In this multiple choice game Converge of Greatness, Be, 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:02.080 we'll read questions where are two historical figures overlap or converge? 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:04.960 And because recovering two times the history, the game is 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:07.600 worth three points. For each question you do the map, 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:10.920 pick the best option as your answer. Chrice, this first 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.640 question is for you, take it away. Being both Roberto 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:18.280 Clemente and Jesse Owens traveled far from home to compete. 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.480 Jesse traveled to Germany at a time when Hitler and 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.240 his followers openly believed black people were less than humid. 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:29.760 Jesse was unfortunately familiar with this backward thinking due to 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:34.120 the racism and Jim Crow laws. He faced in America. However, 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.560 when Roberto came to the mainland, leaving Puerto Rico to 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:42.480 play baseball, he was shocked by this mainstay of American 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:49.200 life at the time. A segregation B skyscrapers or see 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:55.359 huge supermarkets. Ay, that's right, The answer is a. Black 0:21:55.400 --> 0:21:58.520 people and white people were not separated in Puerto Rico. However, 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:01.280 during a trip to Virginia, Berto and his black teammates 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:03.800 could not eat at the same restaurant as their white teammates. 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:06.399 Under Jim Crow laws, Roberto and his black teammates were 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:09.520 not allowed in the white hotels, golf clubs, or swimming pools. 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:13.080 Jesse contended with racism throughout his entire career, even having 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.879 to ride separate busses to his college track and field events. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:19.160 Jim Crow laws were enforced from eighteen seventy until about 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:22.480 nineteen sixty five the United States. Luca, here is the 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:26.080 next question for you, all right, Luca. Both Jesse Owens 0:22:26.080 --> 0:22:30.440 and Roberto Clemente suffered back injuries unrelated to their sports. 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.920 Roberto's was due to a car accident, but Jesse's injury 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.639 was due to a He was body slammed by Roman 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:42.080 Reins b he slipped on a banana peal and hurt 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.440 his back. Or see he accidentally fell down some stairs 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:51.600 while wrestling with friends see corrects. The answer is see. 0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:54.920 A week before the nineteen thirty five Big Ten Championships, 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.119 Jesse hurt his back. He was in a lot of 0:22:57.119 --> 0:22:58.920 pain and thought he might not be able to compete. 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:01.000 His coach did not want him to run injured and 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:03.720 put his future in danger, but Jesse worked all week 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:06.320 with the team trainers to get better. Jesse, still in 0:23:06.359 --> 0:23:09.200 great pain, decided to compete. He completed the one hundred 0:23:09.280 --> 0:23:12.119 yard dash in nine point four seconds and tie the 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:16.320 world record set. Despite this incredible story, you should still 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:19.359 not horseplay in the house. I can't. I just can't 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:22.920 say it enough. No horseplay indoors. Safety First, you don't 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:25.560 want to You don't want to knock over the coffee too. Rice, 0:23:25.760 --> 0:23:29.119 you know the drill your questions next. Both Roberto Clemente 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:33.080 and Jesse Owens one gold in their respective careers. Jesse, 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:36.760 of course, one gold at the Olympics, and Roberto's gold 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:40.159 came in the form of a thousands of coins that 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:43.560 he liked to swim around in be the Baseball Award 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:48.560 the gold Glove or see straw that he spun into gold. 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:52.680 B that's right. The answer is be. After the nineteen 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:55.560 sixty one season, Roberto won the Gold Glove, an award 0:23:55.600 --> 0:23:59.000 given to baseball players for fielding excellence. Players and coaches 0:23:59.080 --> 0:24:01.040 vote to choose the best player at each position in 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:02.880 the league. Roberto would go on to win the Gold 0:24:02.880 --> 0:24:06.439