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The Montreal Expos (French: Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal. The Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States .
Jarry Park Stadium (French: Stade Parc Jarry [stad paʁk ʒaʁi]) is a former baseball stadium, home to the Montreal Expos (now Washington Nationals), from 1969 through 1976, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Expos were Major League Baseball's first Canadian franchise.
The Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals in 2005, the first move in three decades. In 2025, the Oakland Athletics plan to temporarily move to West Sacramento, California , and brand themselves as simply the "A's" and "Athletics" with no city name attached, until they permanently move to Las Vegas in 2028 or later when their new ...
On September 29, 2004, MLB announced that the Expos would move to Washington, D.C., in 2005. [8] [9] The Expos played their final game on October 3 at Shea Stadium, losing by a score of 8–1 against the New York Mets, the same opponent that the Expos first faced at its start, 35 years earlier. On November 15, a lawsuit by the former team ...
The #10 worn by Staub during his first stint in Montreal was the first number retired by the Montreal Expos organization. He is also the franchise's career leader in on-base percentage (.402), among players with 2,000 or more plate appearances with the franchise. [18] He is also the first player to have won the Expos Player of the Year award. [19]
The Expos outdrew the New York Mets from 1977 to 1983, and 1994 to 1996, as well as the New York Yankees in 1982 and 1983. [61] [62] [63] The stadium's playing conditions left much to be desired. For most of the Expos' tenure, the playing surface was an extremely thin AstroTurf carpet, with only equally thin padding between it and the concrete ...
The Canadian actor — who died Thursday at age 88 — was a big supporter of the Montreal Expos during their time in the National League. “We knew he was a superfan, he was always seated on the ...
Most baseball writers considered the Expos to be World Series contenders. Coincidentally, the only time that the Expos had made it to the postseason was in 1981, [18] the last time that there was a significant players' strike in Major League Baseball. [19] That season, Montreal had qualified by winning the second half of the 1981 season.