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Aiding Montreal's bid was the fact that Walter O'Malley, who owned the Dodgers and formerly oversaw the Montreal Royals, was the chairman of the NL's expansion committee. [13] On May 27, 1968, National League president Warren Giles announced the league would add expansion teams in San Diego and Montreal at a cost of US$10 million each.
This is a list of Montreal Expos and Washington Nationals owners and executives. (This Major League Baseball franchise played as the Montreal Expos from 1969 through 2004 and has played as the Washington Nationals since 2005.)
On December 9, 1999, he bought a 24 percent stake in the Montreal Expos for $18 million CAD (approximately $12 million USD) and became the managing general partner. He'd initially considered buying the team in 1991 from founding owner Charles Bronfman , but Bronfman balked at Loria's demand for a controlling interest and the team was ...
Brochu succeeded the retiring John McHale as Montreal Expos president and chief operating officer on September 5, 1986. [2] He led a consortium of local investors that bought the Expos from Charles Bronfman for $100 million CAD on November 29, 1990. [3] The purchase was completed 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 months later on June 14, 1991. [4]
Bronfman was also well known for his forays into professional sports. He was majority owner of Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos from the team's formation in 1968 until 1991. He sold the franchise for $100 million CAD to a consortium of local investors led by Claude Brochu on November 29, 1990. [7]
The Expos, meanwhile, arrived in 1969 as a Major League Baseball expansion franchise. Sutherland, who had a home in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, gravitated to the team “immediately,” Griffin ...
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 ...
In 2004, Alevizos, then 84, made headlines when he proposed to buy the MLB-owned Montreal Expos franchise with the intent to move them to Connecticut. [4] Instead, the Expos relocated to Washington, D.C., where they now play as the Washington Nationals. John Alevizos died in Weston, Massachusetts, at age 85.