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unusual facts about Expos



1994 World Series

The Associated Press writers, at the end of the aborted season, chose to name "unofficial" champions when naming their Managers of the Year as Felipe Alou of the Expos and Buck Showalter of the Yankees, who were leading when the season abruptly ended.

Andre Dawson

After the franchise moved to Washington, the Montreal Canadiens raised a banner in the Bell Centre to commemorate all of the retired Expos numbers, including Dawson's.

Bill Adair

Adair also was a major league coach for the Braves (1962; 1966), White Sox (1970) and Expos (1976).

Brad Wilkerson

He appeared once more in a Montreal Expos uniform during the Major League Baseball Japan All-Star Series shortly after the 2004 regular season.

Claude Brochu

In 2001, he published the book My Turn at Bat: The Sad Saga of the Expos, which blamed Quebec ex-premier Lucien Bouchard for the sale of the baseball team.

Dave Van Horne

With the Expos broadcast situation still unsettled for the 2001 season, Van Horne left at the end of 2000 to broadcast for the Marlins.

He is well known for his "El Presidente, El Perfecto!" call when Expos pitcher Dennis Martínez threw his perfect game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 28, 1991.

Van Horne broadcast the last Expos game in Montreal from the Marlins broadcast booth in 2004.

Denis Boucher

Boucher is one of only four Canadians to have played for both the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos, the others being Matt Stairs, Rob Ducey and Shawn Hill.

Dennis Martínez

During Martinez' time with the Expos, a variation of the Montreal hot dog topped with cheese and bacon called the Denny Dog was sold at Olympic Stadium.

Derek Aucoin

He was signed by the Expos as an amateur free agent in 1989.

Gary Waslewski

On May 15, 1970, he was traded by the Expos to the New York Yankees for Dave McDonald.

Gulf Coast League Expos

When the Montreal Expos left Montreal after the conclusion of the 2004 season and moved to Washington, D.C. to become the Washington Nationals, the Gulf Coast League Expos became the Gulf Coast League Nationals, beginning play as such in the 2005 season.

Jarry Park Stadium

October 2, 1972: In the first game of a doubleheader against the New York Mets, the Expos' Bill Stoneman pitches the first MLB no-hitter outside the United States.

Jetpack Nation

The show usually covers the major global gaming expos like the Tokyo Game Show, E3, Gamescom and PAX.

Jonathan Hurst

On July 21, 1991, he was traded by the Rangers with a player to be named later (minor league pitcher Travis Buckley, who was sent on September 1, 1991) and Joey Eischen to the Expos for Oil Can Boyd.

Ken Macha

Macha made his major league debut on September 14, 1974, going 1-for-1 in a 17-2 Pirates loss to the Expos at Jarry Park.

Ken Singleton

After retiring as a baseball player, Singleton began his broadcasting career as a sportscaster for WJZ-TV in Baltimore in the middle 1980s and, has worked for TSN (The Sports Network) as a television color commentator and as a radio color commentator on Montreal Expos broadcasts and as a color commentator for Fox Sports.

Nickernut

In 1693 James Wallace referred to them being often found in Orkney: "After Storms of Westerly Wind amongst the Sea-weed, they find commonly in places expos'd to the Western-Ocean these Phaseoli . . . . From the West-Indies, where they commonly grow, they may be thrown in on Ireland, the Western parts of Scotland and Orkney".

Peter Bergeron

After spending the 1996 and 1997 seasons in the Dodgers farm system his rights were traded in the middle of the 1998 season to the Expos in an exchange that sent himself, Jonathan Tucker, Wilton Guerrero, and Ted Lilly to Montreal in exchange for Mark Grudzielanek, Hiram Bocachica and Carlos Pérez.

Ryan Minor

After the 2000 season, he was traded to the Expos for pitcher Jorge Julio.

Shayne Bennett

He was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in the 1993 Major League Baseball Draft in the 25th round, and after three years playing in the minor leagues, he was traded to the Montreal Expos in January 1996.

Stephen Coronel

He has done for instance showrooms and expos for clients such as Canon Inc. in 2010.

Tom Runnells

On June 2, 1991, he was promoted again to manager of the Expos, who were lodged in last place in the National League East Division after 49 games.

Tomo Ohka

In the March 16, 2003 episode entitled C. E. D'oh!, Bart Simpson exclaims "Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!" while playing baseball, to which Milhouse replies "Well, I'm Esteban Yan of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays!", referencing the relative obscurity of the two pitchers, as well as the unusual nature of their names.

Vern Rapp

Following an 8-19 month of July, Pete Rose was acquired from the Expos on August 15, he was named the Reds' playing manager.

Wayne Garrett

He was traded by the Mets to the Expos along with Del Unser in July 1976 for Pepe Mangual and Jim Dwyer.


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