VIDEO DESCRIPTION:

Play, download and edit the free video sleepwaveapril1961.

On April 16th, 1961, my Great Grandfather, Harry B. Latina guest-starred on a show called "What's My Line," a show where a string of notable people tried to guess his profession through a series of identifying questions.

At one time, Harry and his son Roland held about 90 percent of all baseball glove patents in the United States. The Latinas' glove designs were used by Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle, Brooks Robinson, Roberto Clemente and others.

Derived from the French, “DeLatinet,” - “Latina” is written in a fanciful cursive and this leads the panel and host to mistake his name for “Latino” throughout the episode.

Of my ancestors, he is probably the one I hear about the most, and despite never meeting him, one I feel as though I know pretty well. The son of an absent father, I know him as a man who took that absence and shaped it into the inverse. Every opportunity to treat himself and his family, he took. Unafraid of exploring new things, even if it meant agreeing to be on a game show and being terribly nervous about it, so nervous as to not correct his name when asked. Additionally, he was a complete camera nerd, and thanks to him his family has a whole archive of his slice of time and the people in it.

Made for sleepwave by racertrash, and part of an ongoing family project, Run The Ghost.

Original full episode of “What’s My Line”:
youtube.com/watch?time_continue=766&v=ZJxGZ66CQJ0&feature=emb_title

More on his impact via Rawlings here: chevronsanddiamonds.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/besides-their-gloves-rawlings-had-another-significant-wwii-veteran/

Music by Tobacco (altered by me).

Download, play and edit free videos and free audios from sleepwaveapril1961 using RedcoolMedia.net web apps