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President Joe Biden welcomed the Atlanta Braves to the White Home on Monday, celebrating their 2021 World Collection championship win with an occasion within the East Room.
The Braves defeated the Houston Astros in six video games to safe Main League Baseball’s championship final November. It marked the Braves’ first title since 1995.
The President, in the course of the White Home occasion, stated the group “by no means stop” and “by no means gave in,” turning into “certainly one of historical past’s biggest turnarounds – the primary title in 26 years.”
“However none of it got here simple. Folks counted you out,” Biden stated, including, “Heck, I do know one thing about being counted out.”
Terry McGuirk, the chairman of the Braves, informed the viewers that “this group by no means quits.”
McGuirk additionally paid tribute to the legendary Braves participant and Corridor of Famer Hank Aaron, who died in January 2021.
“We nonetheless assume we had a particular angel trying over us, having our lately handed pal Hank Aaron pulling the strings from on excessive. There’s no query Hank was part of what we did and he’d have been with us each step of the best way with us if he was right here,” McGuirk stated.
As per custom, the President was gifted with a Braves jersey emblazoned with “BIDEN 46” on the again.
Atlanta Braves gamers, house owners, executives and employees – together with and state and native elected leaders – had been in attendance for the occasion, the White Home stated. Notably, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who now oversees the White Home Workplace of Public Engagement, was in attendance..
Biden welcomed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the 2020 World Collection champs, to the White Home in July 2021. Their reception marked the return of the normal White Home championship go to after being interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Skilled sports activities groups’ journeys to the White Home have lengthy been a convention, with league champions usually getting the possibility to go to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after their win.
