How Did Jesse Owens Influence Athletes

“He competed against race horses and won it.”(“50 facts” ). An athletic legend was born September 12, in 1913 and his name was James Cleveland Owens. After he got the nickname Jesse, he was highly recognized for his outstanding performance in track and field throughout high school and college. After his long hard work and training he qualified for the 1936 Summer Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens was the most influential athlete for proving that Hitler’s Aryan race theory is wrong, being the first to sponsor one of the world's largest companies, and his passion to give his some of skills to some of the world’s most successful leagues and teams.

While in the Olympics, he won four gold medals in his running events, which contradicts what Hitler was

Jesse Owens was leading and guiding the New York Mets to victory. ”In 1965, the downtrodden New York Mets hired Owens as a spring training running instructor to improve the players’ base-running techniques and foot speed,”(Klein). The New York Mets hired him because he was the fastest man in the world so they thought that Jesse could help with their speed. Jesse did make an impact on their team or the coach because in 1969 after he finished with the Mets, they won the world series championships. That affected a major part of our society and world. The effects the fans all around the world. Owens created and formed his Association for black men in baseball and was one of the presidents that helped the teams going and functioning.”Owens, who had purchased the Portland team, was vice president. It was the last of baseball’s Negro leagues, created because organized baseball had banned black players, and the only one on the West Coast,”(Berman 1). Black men already had limited amount of options because they were banned from playing it. With Jesse Owens starting up the West Coast Baseball Association, it gave black men all over the country or from wherever to play and not be discriminated for the skin