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The Expos held spring training at West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium in West Palm Beach, Florida – a facility they shared with the Atlanta Braves.It was their 19th season at the stadium; they had conducted spring training there from 1969 to 1972 and since 1981.
Major League Baseball chose to adopt a split-season schedule, which gave the Expos a fresh start in the second half of the season. [49] With the team languishing near the .500 mark in post-strike play, the club fired Williams and replaced him with scouting director Jim Fanning .
The 1994 Montreal Expos team that could have been remains one of baseball's hot discussion points. The franchise would never reach the playoffs as the Expos again. The collapse of the Expos would eventually lead to the franchise's move to Washington, D.C., for the 2005 season to become the Washington Nationals.
The Pearson Cup (French: Coupe Pearson) was an annual midseason Major League Baseball rivalry between former Canadian rivals, the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos.Named after former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, it was originally created to raise money for minor league baseball in Canada.
The 1996 Montreal Expos season was the 28th season in franchise history. An 88–74 finish was good enough to put them in second in the National League East, 8 games behind the National League Champion Atlanta Braves and 2 games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the Wild Card standings.
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 ...
On that day the MLB officially recognized the 1994 Expos as "The Best Team in Baseball" with a banner for the center field wall, (ironically that banner only lasted one game as it was the last Expos game in Montreal). The game was almost forfeited in the 8th inning when Expos fans threw golf balls onto the field in hopes of making the game longer.
The Expos drew 812,045 fans during the 2002 season, and were 16th in attendance among the 16 National League teams. [9] Their highest attendance for the season was for the Opening Day game on April 2 against the Florida Marlins , which drew 34,351 fans, while their lowest was for a game on September 5 against the Philadelphia Phillies , which ...