first time brings the great glory of pennant favor to that wonderful city in Baltimore as the

American League champion. Now here's the veteran voice of the Baltimore Orioles whose great

ball club had a fine fine year and Chuck Thompson will tell us all about. Well thank you very

much Bob, friends. Good afternoon baseball fans. The Baltimore Orioles in a world series for the

first time in a rather brief history and are very delighted to be here however

the Orioles winning of an American League pennant could not be compared to the

Dodgers win of the National League and certainly all baseball fans whether they

be rooters for the National League or for the American League certainly have to

stop the cap and a great big round of congratulations to manager Walter

Alston and the Dodgers for the manner in which they won this 1966 National League pennies.

Baltimore has nothing but a great deal of respect for the tremendous pitching of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

They also respect the great Dodgers

speed and their fine defensive skills. But quite honestly, Baltimore Fields, it brings to this

World Series the kind of a club that can beat the Dodgers. The Orioles are a club that

is played very consistently throughout the first half of the year and the second half of the year ran into

problems that beset all ball cups at one time or another in the course of a baseball year injuries

unfortunately for the Baltimore Orioles the greater part of their injuries in the second half of the

year befell a very fine pitching staff now everyone has talked about the superlative pitching of the Los Angeles Dodgers,

and there's not a man in the world who could deny it. However, in the Baltimore camp, they honestly feel that their pitching has been downgraded.

The Orioles feel their pitching is a lot better than people seem to think that it is.

And the afternoon, a young man who has, well, never played in a high school baseball

for the very simple reason that they did not have baseball in his high school in Billings, Montana,

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