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" Th e best major lea g ue contract ever signed between a mu ni c ipality and a team. 11 This is the way Mayor Ivan Allen, J r. des cr ib es the contract signed today in City tlall which will b ring the fnr mer Mil wauk e e Braves to a A~m top00 ~ . jp A ±Ja11l:;a 1 s b ra nd _new Atlanta Stadium. btoktiru The Ne w Atlanta Braves willi ppen their S eason in April 1965 in the S tadium, the Mayor assured . the team management at the eeaemnames contract signing. The contract itself, a twenty-five year agreement, whic h brings the first major league team in history into the se v en-st a te Southeastern region, is described by Arthur Mo n t g omery, Chairman of the Atlanta and Fulton County ~ ecreation Authorit y as 1 a good, busine s s contract, with no gi v e-a ways. This is good for us and good for them~ Present at the cont;rracts igning were: �