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Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
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Collection: Correspondence, White House Office of:
Records, 1981-89
Folder Title: Harmon Killebrew Day
Box: Box 75(1984)
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DEPARTMENT THE OF THE UNITED
Harmon Killebrew Day, 1984
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
On August 12, 1984, Harmon Killebrew will be inducted into the Baseball Hall
of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. As a seventeen-year-old, Harmon Kille-
brew signed with the late Washington Senators and played with that franchise
in the Nation's Capital and after its transfer to Minnesota. In an illustrious
career, he hit 573 home runs, second only to Babe Ruth among all players in
American League history. Harmon Killebrew was a member of the American
League All-Star team on eleven occasions, and in 1969, he hit 49 home runs
and batted in 140 runs and was named the American League's Most Valuable
Player.
In honoring Harmon Killebrew, we recognize the accomplishments of the other
baseball immortals enshrined in Cooperstown and the many contributions the
sport has made to American culture and myth. Harmon Killebrew is the latest
in a lengthy list of players who, in the words of Justice Harry Blackmun of the
United States Supreme Court, "have sparked the diamond and its environs
and that have provided tinder for recaptured thrills, for reminiscence and
comparisons, and for conversation and anticipation and all other happen-
ings, habits, and superstitions about and around baseball that have made it
the 'national pastime' or, depending upon the point of view, 'the great Ameri-
can tragedy'."
The Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 285, has designated June 13, 1984, as
"Harmon Killebrew Day" and authorized and requested the President to issue
a proclamation in observance of this event.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, RONALD REAGAN, President of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim June 13, 1984, as Harmon Killebrew Day, and I
call upon the people of the United States to observe that day with appropriate
ceremonies and activities.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of
June, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-four, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and eighth.
Ronald Reagan