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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fifteen,

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twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight,

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Thank you very much, Marvin.

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And now it's a pleasure to introduce a man who has worked very hard in making preparations for this very wonderful send-off.

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You fans are giving our Milwaukee Blaze this morning.

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I'd like to introduce Mr. Ben Barkin.

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Thank you, Earl.

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A trophy which is symbolic of the gift of all Milwaukee to Fred and to Florence for the honor they have brought our community

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and for the very fine people that they are.

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Fred, would you step forward and receive this knick-knacks for your shelf?

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Ladies and gentlemen, I never thought there would be a time that I wouldn't know what to say.

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I'll tell you frankly, the ride today on this parade, I think, was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me.

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And I know, and speaking for the boys in the ball club, that they feel the same way about it.

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A year ago today, we knew we owed this city and the fans something.

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We've only paid half of it.

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We've got the other half to go.

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And I know with the determination that the boys have shown all season long, we'll carry on through the series

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and we will truly make Milwaukee the home of baseball and a baseball championship.

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I do want to thank Mr. Barkin and his committee.

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They've done a wonderful job.

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And to you fans for your loyal support all season long on behalf of the ball club, many, many thanks.

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And we're not going to let you down.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Fred Haney and lots of the best of luck in New York City starting Wednesday.

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You folks, with such a wonderful turnout, have honored our ball club, which brought home the bacon this year.

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And I believe right now we should have an official send-off from his honor, Mayor Frank Seidler.

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I want to thank on behalf of the city government and the Common Council, the Braves, their management, Fred Haney and the players

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for the very wonderful season they gave us.

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We realized that they were under great stress and strain.

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They had some injuries.

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They were under a psychological pressure in order to win.

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And they had a little season slump at the rear which some of us thought was going to be easily overcome.

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And we were right.

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And because of all of this, they have furnished us in Milwaukee the most wonderful sports year we ever had.

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Now, Fred, it's customary for us to give the key to the city, but that's a little bit stale, besides you've been here a long time.

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I do have something, though, I'd like to give you on behalf of the people of this community.

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One of our own city officials, Mr. Joseph J. Krieger, is a great sports fan.

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And he has written a book which is now a collector's item called Baseball's Greatest Drama.

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It's the history of every World Series from 1905 to 1945.

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The only copy I could get was owned by my boy Mike.

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And he consented, after some parental pressure, to see to it that it goes to you, Fred.

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He says this collector's item on baseball history in the World Series for winning the National League Tenet for Milwaukee

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It goes to manager Fred Haney of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves.

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Fred is a token of the esteem and affection of all of the people of Milwaukee, not only the fans, but all of those who couldn't probably get to the ball game.

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This book I give to you and hope that it inspires you to do even better in the World Series and come back and give us another tenet.

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Thank you, Fred.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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I certainly appreciate this book. Knowing its true value and has a collector's item, we'll be able to go through it.

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This is the second book I've received.

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John Quinn gave me one this morning entitled How to Beat the Yankees.

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So we're going to read both of them. Thanks a lot, sir.

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By your turnout today, you've certainly shown that you're proud of your Braves.

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And I want you to know that your Braves are proud of you.

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How could they be anything else with 150,000 or 200,000 people lining the Avenue today?

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But I couldn't help but think as we came down Wisconsin Avenue that just about a year ago, that unhappy day when we returned from St. Louis,

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there were 15,000 or 20,000 people out there at the Milwaukee County Airport at Mitchell Field.

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And what a wonderful thing that was. And I'll say this, that I certainly don't think that you're going to have to have that sort of a welcoming party again.

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I think that this club is going out, going to beat the Yankees. There's no question in my mind about it.

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All the obstacles that have been overcome this year, injuries and everything, we now have a sound ball club.

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And you can be sure that we're going to bring a World's Championship back here to Milwaukee.

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And to Ben Bakken and all of those responsible, I want to say a sincere thanks to all of you people for your turnout.

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Thanks in Gesundheit.

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Now with their schedule running very close to the deadline, I would like to introduce our Braves ball club as a unit, which they have been since opening day this year.

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And that is why now they were the title of the champion of the National League.

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Fans are champion Braves. We'll meet the Yankees Wednesday.

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Boys.

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Now again, we'd like to thank you for this wonderful display of the best spirit in sports that I think has ever been seen in the country.

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Now let's go out and get a new Braves.

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Thanks to all of you for joining in the festivities.

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