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Atlanta Braves By:

Atlanta Braves By:. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUUjD5bL3Y&feature=related. AKS and Essential Questions. SS8E3 The student will evaluate the influence of Georgia’s economic growth and development.

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  1. Atlanta BravesBy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUUjD5bL3Y&feature=related

  2. AKS and Essential Questions • SS8E3 The student will evaluate the influence of Georgia’s economic growth and development. • b. Explain how entrepreneurs take risks to develop new goods and services to start a business. • c. Evaluate the importance of entrepreneurs in Georgia who developed such enterprises as Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Georgia-Pacific, and Home Depot. • What are the risks that entrepreneurs take to develop new goods and services to start a business? • What is the importance of entrepreneurs and how do they affect Georgia’s economy? • Which grassroots companies have signified the importance of entrepreneurship in Georgia?

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  4. Summary-Type your Nine Sentences Here

  5. History of Atlanta Braves

  6. History of the Company Did you Know….. Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium (known as Atlanta Stadium from 1966 to 1975) lured major league sports to the Deep South. In early 1964 the National League Milwaukee Braves baseball team agreed verbally to move to Atlanta if a stadium was finished in time for the 1966 season. The idea for the stadium originated when Ivan Allen Jr. his campaign he promised to build a modern sports facility to attract a major league baseball team to Atlanta. After winning the election, Allen's next challenge was to choose a suitable site for a stadium, persuade a major league team to play there, and obtain the money to build it. On April 9, 1965, the stadium was finished. That evening the Milwaukee Braves played the Detroit Tigers in an exhibition game at Atlanta Stadium, which had been built in record time at a cost of $18 million.

  7. Braves becomes an Enterprise

  8. Hank AaronHero Card http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m66lmbROA58

  9. Important facts to Remember?

  10. Braves Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkozTZDVLI4&feature=related

  11. What is unique about the Atlanta Braves • They paid higher salaries than any other professional sports team during the 1960s and 1970s • They were the first team to have an African American coach • The won seven World Series Championships during the 1970s • They were the first professional sports team located in the South • Who was MOST responsible for promoting the Atlanta Braves and the city of Atlanta on a national basis • A. William B. Hartsfield b. Rankin M. Smith • B. Ivan Allen, Jr. d. Ted Turner • Fill in the blank • 3. When did the Atlanta Braves come to Georgia? ________________________________ • 4. What other states did the Braves belong to before they called Atlanta home? ______________________________ • 5. On __________________________________, the Braves played their first regular season game in Atlanta • 6. In the early part of the decade the star attraction of Braves baseball was ______________________, who pursued Babe Ruth's career home-run record, perhaps the most revered record in all of sports.

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