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April 14, 1969: In the first Major League Baseball regular season game in Canada, the Montreal Expos defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 8–7. [ 17 ] June 25, 1969: The Expos pulled off the second triple play of the major league season and first in their history in the second inning of a game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
April 14 – The Montreal Expos win their first home game by defeating the St.Louis Cardinals 8 to 7 at Jarry Park Stadium in Montreal. May 4 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 16th Stanley Cup by defeating the St. Louis Blues 4 games to 0. Landrienne, Quebec's Serge Savard is awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy.
Montreal won two out of three games in the series, including a late-game victory in the opener over future-Hall-of-Fame pitcher Greg Maddux that the players viewed as the turning point of their season. [109] Montreal then embarked on a west coast road trip in which they won the final five games and entered the All-Star break in first place. [110]
The police wanted an annual salary for a constable to go from $7,300 to $9,200 and charged that policing in Montreal was more dangerous than in Toronto, with two officers being killed in the line of duty in 1968, and that the frequent rioting between French-Canadians and English-Canadians in Montreal in 1968 and 1969 added to the danger. [4]
The 1969 Montreal Expos season was the inaugural season in Major League Baseball for the team. The Expos, as typical for first-year expansion teams , finished in the cellar of the National League East with a 52–110 record, 48 games behind the eventual World Series Champion New York Mets .
Olympic Stadium [1] (French: Stade olympique, pronounced [stad ɔlɛ̃pik]) is a multi-purpose stadium in Montreal, Canada, located at Olympic Park in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city. Built in the mid-1970s as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics , it is nicknamed " The Big O ", a reference to both its name and to the ...
Montreal Jazz: NBL Canada: Centre Pierre Charbonneau: 2012–2013 0 Montreal Expos: Major League Baseball: Olympic Stadium: 1969–2004 0 Montreal Impact: North American Soccer League: Saputo Stadium: 1992–2011 3 Montreal Royals: International League: Delorimier Stadium: 1929–1960 2 Montreal Junior Hockey Club: Quebec Major Junior Hockey ...
57th Grey Cup, the Canadian Football League's championship game, was played November 30, 1969, and the Ottawa Rough Riders defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders 29–11 before 33,172 fans at Montreal's Autostade. It was the first time since 1931, a break of 38 years, that the CFL title match would be played in Montreal. [1]