Montreal Expos: how the Expos became relevant once again
Montreal Expos fans are dancing on the ice and singing Valderi Valdera as their team has been highlighted in the news several times in recent weeks.
Take a peek at the calendar and it’ll feel like it’s 1994. No, your Montreal Expos aren’t 74-40, on their way to the best season in franchise history when the player’s strike happened and ultimately eliminated the rest of the season and a World Series your boys surely would have won.
Though one of your native sons from that 1994 team is in the news. Larry Walker who hit .322 with a league-leading 44 doubles at the time of that strike, has made his way in Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Two days ago, we remembered Gary Carter as eight years earlier on that day we said goodbye to him one last time as he lost his battle with brain cancer. How big would The Kid’s smile be knowing baseball is on its way back to Montreal?
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With the Tampa Bay Rays discussing playing half of their home games in Montreal, those tri-colored Expos hats are getting a lot of love in the media these days. Not to mention Stephen Bronfman trying to get local investors together to buy a share of the Rays, has been clamoring editorial space in the local print media.
Stephen is, of course, the son of the first Montreal Expos owner, Charles Bronfman.
Speaking of print media, by the time the regular season opens up there will be another Expos book at the bookstore. Danny Gallagher’s ‘Always Remembered: New Revelations and old tales about those fabulous Expos’, will surely be a great read and you can own it March 23rd.
You shouldn’t read it before reading ‘Blue Monday: The Expos, the Dodgers, and the Home Run That Changed Everything’, another great piece of writing by Gallagher.
With all these references to Nos Amours, even the casual Montreal Expos fan has reason to be giddy. For the seventh straight year, the Toronto Blue Jays will play an exhibition game at Olympic Stadium.
Next. Jonathan Villar on the move once again. dark
This year Montreal will host a two-game series between the Jays and the New York Yankees. Pull your Delino Deshields socks high Expos faithful and dust off your Boots (Day), because your team is relevant once again.