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1957
MILWAUKEE BRAVES
"Hail To The Braves"
The greatest chapter in Milwaukee Braves baseball history unfolds on video in another of a great series of beautiful Braves color highlight films now available! "Hail To The Braves!" covers the Braves 1957 season, both at home and on the road, as the greatest team in Milwaukee baseball history drives to the first of its two consecutive National League pennants and victory over the New York Yankees for Milwaukee's only Baseball World Championship!
See all the Braves heroes of that memorable year: fiery Johnny Logan, slugging Eddie Mathews, reliable Red Schoendienst, big Joe Adcock, slick-fielding first sacker Frank Torre, outfielders Wes Covington, Andy Pafko, "Nippy" Jones, speedy Bill Bruton, the double Dels - Crandall and Rice, Felix Mantilla, sensational Bob "Hurricane" Hazle, pitchers Bob Buhl, Lou Burdette, Warren Spahn, relievers Ernie Johnson and Don McMahon, and of course, young Hank Aaron, who led the majors with 44 homers plus three in the World Series, and who won the National League's MVP Award.
This tape covers the club at Spring Training in Bradenton, and in the festive home opening win versus the Cincinnati Redlegs. Follow the team to the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field for the last time before the Giants and Dodgers move westward for 1958. Great shots of both the Braves and their opponents banging the ball into the stands of those old ballparks which are now only a memory - this is the only professionally shot COLOR footage which exists of baseball action at either the Polo Grounds or Ebbets Field!
And, this was truly the greatest of the "glory years" of the Milwaukee Braves - when Milwaukee led the MAJORS in attendance for five consecutive seasons, and set new National League and Milwaukee records with 2,215,404 for a single season! (The Brewers have only equaled this mark once, and that was by playing more games in an expanded park.)
The tape concludes with colorful highlights of game #4 of the 1957 World Series at County Stadium, which turned the tide of the series. The Braves win on Eddie Mathews' electrifying homer after trailing the Yanks in extra innings! This tape is an absolute must for every Milwaukee Braves fan as well as serious baseball historians.
To order your copy, send $29.95 + $5.00 for first class shipping to:
"RARE SPORTSFILMS N",
1126 Tennyson Lane,
Naperville, IL 60540
(630) 527-8890
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