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Youppi! was the first mascot to be thrown out of a Major League Baseball game. [3] During the 1989 Expos season, on August 23 while atop the visitors' dugout in the 11th inning, Youppi! took a running leap, landing hard and noisily on its roof, and then sneaked into a front row seat.
[181] Unlike Souki, Youppi! was immediately popular with fans upon its introduction in 1979, particularly children, and the mascot became a fixture at children's hospitals during its 25 years as the Expos mascot. [182] Youppi! made history in 1989 when he became the first mascot in Major League history to be ejected from a ballgame. [183]
The game also marked the first time that a mascot was ejected by an umpire. Youppi!, dressed in a nightgown and nightcap, pretended to go to sleep on top of the Dodgers dugout, former Montreal Royals reliever and then coach of the Dodgers Tommy Lasorda demanded that Youppi! be run from the game. In the end the game took over 6 hours to finish ...
Youppi! at Montreal Comiccon in 2016. Elia was an official mascot of the Montreal Canadiens. He is a purple triceratops like the Colorado Rockies's mascot named Dinger. He later retired in 2004 when the Montreal Expos moved from Montreal to Washington, D.C.. Youppi! (Yippee! or Hooray! in French) is the official mascot for the Montreal ...
Beginning in the 2004–05 season, the Canadiens adopted Youppi! as their official mascot, the first costumed mascot in their long history. The foregoing was the longtime mascot for Major League Baseball (MLB)'s Montreal Expos but was dropped from the franchise when they moved to Washington, D.C. prior to the 2005 MLB season and became the ...
List of Montreal Expos team records; ... Youppi! Media in category "Montreal Expos" The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. E. File:Expos1992.jpg; M.
1. ^ Ken Singleton left the Expos in May 1996 to join the MLB on Fox. He was replaced by Mike Stenhouse. Marc Griffin filled-in on radio broadcasts when Stenhouse was calling games on television. [54] 2. ^ From 1971 to 1976, 1987, 1989 to 1990, and 1997 to 1999, the Expos had a secondary announcer for games Dave Van Horne called on television ...
After the Montreal Expos franchise departed for Washington, D.C., in 2005, the Canadiens acquired former Expos mascot Youppi to serve as their first-ever mascot. [160] Having missed the playoffs in 2006–07 , the Canadiens rebounded to win their first division title in 15 years in 2007–08 , as well as their first regular season conference ...