The Australian Baseball Federation would like
to congratulate the National Senior Men’s Baseball Team after
recently competing in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Their history-making silver medal win has reiterated what fine
baseball talent our country is producing.
Our team is a true credit, not only to the Australian Baseball
community, but also to the Australian sporting community as a
whole.
The team is a dedicated, driven and extremely talented group of
athletes who had a goal and strove to achieve it.
The team is a true inspiration to past, present and future baseball
players and there could not be a more deserving group of recipients
of this prestigious award.
May we take this opportunity to thank those of you who have helped
our Australian team achieve their Olympic glory.
Without your support, hard work and pure ‘love of the game’,
the team may not have achieved this amazing success.
To OUR Olympic champions, may we say thank-you to you also.
Your courage and determination is truly overwhelming and is a
true demonstration of Aussie spirit and sportsmanship.
Your efforts at this year’s Games were courageous, gutsy
and inspiring.
Your achievements have uncovered two of Australia’s true
hidden treasures:-
1) Our high quality of baseball talent in Australia and
2) A truly talented bunch of outstanding athletes with a burning
desire to achieve ‘the dream’.
You should all be SO proud of yourselves, as Australia is of you
all.
Well done and thank-you for filling thousands of Australians hearts
with gold.
You may have secured yourselves a silver Olympic medal, but you
have secured a gold medal in the hearts of thousands.
We can’t wait to see you all when you return home!
This is the first time in Olympic history that Australia has qualified
for a baseball semi-final, let alone wins a medal.
The team’s success is a milestone in Australian baseball
history and one that we should all be proud of.
Congratulations once again to the team, their families and the
sporting bodies that helped them achieve ‘the dream’.