Les Expos de Montréal Nostalgia Repository

The other threads with "Expos" in the title are sad.

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I have a shirt I bought at the Big O on the last homestand.

So glad I got to see them play in MTL. Weirdest color turf I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2QuAO1xJu8

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http://www.lessignets.com/signetsdiane/calendrier/images/avril/6/Staub_Rusty_71LR400ds506566.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/sports/baseball/08expos.html

http://thedailysomething.com/2010-articles/june/the-last-expo.html

I'd pick either Nick Johnson or Vlad, seeing as they should be productive DH's for several more years. If Vlad can have a few more good years and cinch his HOF status, it'd be nice to see him enter the hall as an Expo (~ 15 years after the team ceased to exist).

Either Lilly or someone totally random like Carroll or Harris or Downs.

I'd bet money on Vlad going into the HOF as an Angel.

http://jonahkeri.com/2010/08/16/triumph-and-tragedy-94-expos/

This program left me in tears.

That looks awesome. And Keri's article is great.

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/info-1994expos.html

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/info-2004expos.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibLDHfdJhU

Wezen-Ball
The Expos Invite You to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=13839

http://jonahkeri.com/2011/06/22/new-montreal-expos-book/
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http://jonahkeri.com/2011/06/22/new-montreal-expos-book/

http://thestar.blogs.com/baseball/2011/07/griffin-dave-van-horne-recalls-his-32-years-in-montreal.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=CEIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1SaVwRf3mKmHZgmwfQwE0x8Yfs8A&w=575

https://twitter.com/#!/Montreal_Expos

happy birthday to le grand chat

What do you experts think? Any chance of seeing MLB baseball in Montréal again?

http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Jack+Todd+baseball+dream+reborn/8145572/story.html

no

ne pas.

able was i ere i saw 'elb'

So not gonna happen.

Some of the reasons in that article (e.g. social media, revenue sharing, TV money) would apply to any potential new baseball city, not just Montreal. Also this --

Right now I’d put the chances that Montreal will get another major-league team somewhere between bandicoot battery and the likelihood that the ex-Expos (a.k.a. the Washington Nationals — will win the World Series.

-- seems to show that the reporter hasn't actually watched baseball or the Nationals in past five years or so.

;_;

Keepin the rêve alive

Jonah Keri @jonahkeri
600 people signed up so far for Expos fans reunion at TOR v TB, Rogers Centre July 20. To join, bluejays.com Sections 101/102/103.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/1eea47212321918bac1bbd4b68fd9056/tumblr_mq9e7cWIHc1qzniimo1_1280.png

able was i ere i saw 'elb', eh

74-40 GODDAMNIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQh7inZ9mtc

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/09/09/the-jays-and-mets-to-play-two-exhibition-games-in-montreal-next-spring

road trip

not unless Youppi stays away.

YES!

Now i'm anxious it won't draw.

now featuring a reunion of the '94 expos

http://www.montrealbaseballproject.com/english/gala

yes, by the time I get my new passport it could be March; let's go to Montreal.

I could do this.

btw those exhibition dates are March 28 & 29

Got my tickets to one of the games (I think Friday). Any ILXors going? Maybe grab an ILX pack? Are they even still available? Got mine so long ago...

oh and re:

YES!

Now i'm anxious it won't draw.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 23:34 (1 month ago)

"Over 50,000 have been sold for the games in March," the president of the Montreal Baseball Project told CJAD 800 News.

Cromartie said they've also sold about 28,000 tickets for next March's gala celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Expos.

http://www.cjad.com/CJADLocalNews/entry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10604899

well I guess we should decide before (US) Thanksgiving, then

Yeah I'm glad it is such a success, but the anxiety was justified.

what's the o roof situation these days?

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One of my first elementary school field trips after arriving in North America involved an Expos game at Jarry Park. It was a cold, windy day, and sitting in those bleachers through nine innings didn't let you forget it. Jarry struck me as a desolate and forlorn place, though in hindsight it was much more lovable than the Big O.

I became more of a hockey fan in those years, but the Expos were a part of the landscape, and there was something about that logo...

The first month of grade seven in '79 coincided with the epic pennant race against the Pirates. I had a classmate who'd bring in a radio to class and turn it on during class breaks to catch us up on the games. Raines made his debut that September, all of 19 years old.

I think this must make me one of ilx's resident geezers.

I remember my Grade 2 class in a non-Quebec French immersion school being interrupted to watch game 5 of the Expos-Dodgers NLCS on a TV they wheeled into the auditorium. Rick Monday hit the winning home run right around the time classes were scheduled to end, IIRC, and they kicked us out. I ran home (2 blocks, unaccompanied age 7) dreaming of the Expos rallying to win in the bottom of the ninth. Dawson was due up, at least. Got home, ran to the TV and found the game: they'd gotten 2 quick outs, then 2 walks, forcing a pitching change. I sat down just as the first pitch was delivered, ground ball up the middle, easy out, game over.

The next year we took a Via train through the Rockies and I spent most of the time in the dome car carefully drawing baseball players (out of overlapping ovals) and then colouring the numbers, stripes and "elb" logo of the Expos home uniform.

Followed them as closely as I could from afar for years after that, listened to Dave Van Horne do the radio broadcasts, watched them on French CBC, bought a Rotisserie baseball stats guide with Andres Galarraga on the cover.

Haven't watched a regular season baseball game since 1994.

Cool story, Plasmon.

God I loved that VIA dome car. Did the transcontinental trip a few times, on way to various summer jobs out West. I remember one time, on my way to Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlotte Islands, I had my eyes glued on the massive Skeena River --half a mile across, boiling and swirling emerald currents marching towards the Pacific-- when this enormous thing erupted from the water, missile-like, and then fell back into it, a creature so large that in the first instant I took it to be some sort of a marine mammal, a member of the whale family, maybe... but as we rolled onward and I processed the image in my mind I realized, no, that was a fish. Sure enough, as a local sitting near me confirmed, the Chinook salmon were running. He figured the one we saw was easily sixty pounds.

A cool kickstarter project concerning nos z'amours

it'd be kind of poetically fitting if the filmmaker just scammed all the Kickstarter backers and just ran off to Miami with the money.

@si_vault
Get excited, Montreal -- it's Expos Day at the SI Vault! I'll get up as many pics as I can. pic.twitter.com/j2eQY6QFUK

https://twitter.com/si_vault

Jonah Keri's book comes out on the 25th.

http://www.amazon.com/Up-Away-Business-Ill-fated-Unforgettable/dp/0307361357

I guess no one is joining Will M. for the exhib games?

oh god... the only time i could get off work & my gf could get off work to see each other was this weekend/the following week, so i am flying out to vancouver the day of the first game... meaning... none of us are going to the exhibition games!!!! i am upset :( i was really hoping to see a colon vs ohka matchup!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BiJ6MwXCIAAqHtl.jpg

anyone will be at one of the two games this weekend?

acc to the other thread, no!

maaaaaan :( :( :( picked the worst time to leave montreal for a week! had my tickets and everything. at least i'll have mlbtv when i get back.

What's normally the year's most exciting live baseball in Montreal? Or does one have to go to Quebec City?

The Quebec City team played one game here last year and something over a thousand people showed up, I think... other than that, not really any live baseball. Just wish everyone would get their head out of the clouds re: an MLB team and just get a minor league team. Vancouver has one, Ottawa is getting one, ugh.

If you're in Montreal and for some reason really hurting for live baseball I can send you my beer league's schedule, I guess!

i was looking for the thread where i was going to bring a new york-penn league team to montréal and rrrobyn was going to do all the graphic art and stuff but i couldn't find it and found this instead:

Stade Olympique in Montreal, Quebec

I am so on board with having a minor league team here. I used to go to evening games in Vancouver at nat bailey stadium, which is next to a big park, so the air is fresh and just, well, it was pretty sweet.

Jonah Keri's Expos book is out this week.

i mean i would want a AA team but i'm not picky, i would probably watch a couple games a week of short-A ball (but i am usre the tickets would be massively overpriced -- last time i went to a vermont lake monsters game, i am pretty sure it was under $5!!!)

(vs vanoucver canadians which was around $20!!!)

Quite excited for tonight. I'll be at the game tomorrow.

ergh, many dodgers cap and jersey at the stade.

ergh, many dodgers cap and jersey at the stade.

rude

a fan fell from the bleachers, that's a 16 meters drop. yes meters. hope he's fine. :(

a massive bunch of montrealers singing the olé chant for a toronto team was kinda special.

I caught just a bit of today's game. I take it Pedro wasn't there? (I had to check to see if he was even on the '94 team...)

http://wpmedia.sports.nationalpost.com/2014/03/mets_blue_jays_baseball.jpg?w=620&h=387

Keri interview on book

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23189

his book tour includes smoked meat at a NYC deli

http://jonahkeri.com/2014/02/14/book-tour/

WDYLL during the summer of 1983 (during your first Tiger Stadium visit)?

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May 2, 1987:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4UclkYmr7g

https://i.imgur.com/XyiYhSd.jpg

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2044800323/the-perfect-storm-documentary-on-the-94-montreal-e

"In the past year I have independently Produced three Sport's Documentary's."

Hmm.

anyone read Keri's book?

I just discovered that an acquaintance of mine (someone I met at parties a few times and played online games with) is the son of Joel Youngblood. He's the first player to hit with two different cities, in two games, with two different teams ON THE SAME DAY, the pitchers were Jenkins and Carlton. JENKINS AND CARLTON. He did for it for the Mets and Expos. You guys must know this story by heart already. I am going to try to meet him and report back to ILB.

yeah i remember that trade

Joel was a total babe btw

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/aug/11/1994-major-league-baseball-strike-montreal-expos

Wetteland, who would go on to close for the 1996 World Series champion Yankees, told the Guardian:

It’s never been reconciled in my heart. It’s never been reconciled. In 1994 we had a product on the field that would win a World Series … we understood that that was the beginning of the end in ‘94, and that was tough. I just can’t get over it, we could have had many world championships here because we were all young. But that’s life.

Kinda confused by expos fan (and expos themselves) talking of that championship like a sure thing, how many times the best record in baseball translated into actual championships? The White Sox were also very good, many other teams were. The narrative of 'we should have won the World Series and then things would have been okay' is ridiculous wishful thinking at worst, a romantic story at best. I am not denying the strike had no effect on the expos whatsoever, but there was plenty of factors and one of them was the pure apathy Montreal public towards the sport of baseball.

Agree, and thought so at the time. I'm not convinced they would have even won their division. They were six games up on Atlanta when the strike shut down the season; the Braves were four years into their dynasty, playing .600 baseball, and it was only the year before when they staged one of the great divisional comebacks ever. On the other hand, the Expos had been getting better as the year went on: .565 in April, then .556/.704/.692/.818.

They had about 50 games to play--I wouldn't have been shocked if the Braves had caught them. But at worst, I think they had a (brand-new) wild card locked up, especially as they only had to stay ahead of Cincinnati or Houston, and Bagwell had just gone down for the season.

Got a cheap used copy of the Keri book over the weekend--will probably read that next after Perlstein's book.

Tim Koewn wrote an article about the '94 season being romanticized as whatever you wanted it to be. The Expos would have won the WS, Gwynn would have hit .400, somebody would have hit 62 homers -- as time passes, each of these becomes more of a certainty in the eyes of many people, and you can't really disagree because the season was never finished.

But yeah, winning the WS obviously wasn't a sure thing, but they would have made the playoffs and possibly kicked off a successful run not unlike the '90's Indians or the post '08 Brewers (i.e. two "smaller market" franchises that were transformed by finally getting over the hump and making the playoffs after two decades of losing). Maybe more guys would have stayed with the Expos in '95 and '96 if they'd had a deep playoff run in '94.

And I really need to get the Keri book.

Jays-Reds exhibtion pair at the Big O next spring

http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/8/12/5996667/blue-jays-montreal-olympic-stadium-reds

Anyone planning on coming to the Reds- Jays exhibition game?

maaayyyybe

the what?!

oh right - the link from two months ago.

Kinda wish the Quebec chapter of SABR would actually do something about the exhibition game, like a gallery of photos or something to present the history of Quebec baseball to visitors but it seems the whole chapter has been inactive for a while now, internal fights and lack of interest will kill any small organization.

@jonahkeri
Canada! "The Perfect Storm", amazing new @seanmenard documentary on '94 Expos, airs tonight 8:30 pm on TSN1. (I'm lightly involved) Tune in!

Final of the Concacaf Champions League at the Big O right now, there is player called Martinez on the pitch and another called Guerrero on the bench.

I was at that game, I gotta say the expos games had nothing on that crowd... holy fuck

But also for the expos game, they had the "getting people in the doors" game on LOCK (compared to this)... for concacaf I think I was outside for ~35 mins just to get in

http://globalnews.ca/news/2002980/baseball-in-montreal-mayor-denis-coderre-mlb-commissioner-to-meet/?hootPostID=3eb37d12087edc74a154c527df9bfb75

Baseball in Montreal? Mayor Denis Coderre, MLB commissioner to meet

1969 program:

http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1330/5100890119_2cdc70417d_b.jpg

I want to know what a sandwich spécial is!

Ham, cheese, and little pieces of John Boccabella.

I finally started reading "Up Up and Away" as a spring training present to myself (I bought it a few months ago and finally started reading it this week). I'm about sixty pages in and it's perfect pre-season reading, full of amusing stories and cool factoids (like the English to Quebecois French translation of baseball terms). No bitterness, just a "this was fun while it lasted" vibe throughout (maybe the bitterness comes later though).

I had no idea that MLB awarded a franchise to MTL before there was an ownership group in place! The business of baseball has really changed since the late 60's ...

this is one of my favorite pages in the internet: http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/French_Baseball_Glossary

Got my tickets for Saturday @ the Big O, currently getting tickets for Friday as well. It was all sorts of fun last year.

Knuckleball - la balle papillon

Butterfly ball?

that's my favourite one! i end up just reading that page idly a few times per season.

i'm picturing the Quebec language police coming down on the field and telling the players they have to communicate entirely en francais during the game.

"La balle papillon" was Jonah Keri's favourite too, but his list wasn't as comprehensive as the B-R glossary. "Blown Save - le sabotage" gets my vote though.

a screwball is a corkscrew ball, because wine lol french lol etc
a forkball = a slingball
a bunt is like... a cushioning?
pop-up/line drive/grounder = candle/arrow/roller
a shutout = laundry!!!
pitch hitter = emergency hitter (but a pinch runner is just a substitute runner, lol)

and then there's the ones that are just fun to say... moyen du puissance! balle glissante!

fly ball is ballon, which is the name we give to bigger balls like a basketball or a soccer ball.

I'm up to the chapter about 1994 (it gets its own chapter). I've been kind of dreading this part of the book, since it's nothing but a series of crushing disappointments from here until the end, but OTOH Keri's been keeping the negativity to a minimum so maybe I'm in for a surprise.

I'd almost forgotten how bad Expos ownership was in the pre-Loria days. Keri tries to be neutral on most things, and in many ways Charles Bronfman comes across as a visionary who helped bring the Expos to Montreal and led them through their late 70's/early '80's heyday. But to me he also comes across as a greedy asshole, even more so than your usual scummy baseball owner. He was arguably the most enthusiastic supporter of collusion in the 80's, and interviewees in the book say that he was personally crushed to discover that players wanted to be paid better and would sometimes sign with the highest bidder. He saw the Expos as a family business (where only he was allowed to make money of course) and couldn't understand why the ungrateful players didn't share in that loyalty, they just wanted more money.

The Expos also tried to squeeze the Jays out of their own markets in the 80's, which I hadn't heard about before. People partly blamed the Expos' downfall on the Jays, claiming that the Spos couldn't possibly survive unless they had nearly exclusive rights to broadcast anywhere in Canada, but particularly in Southern Ontario. Last I checked, the Canadiens do just fine despite the Leafs, and the population of Montreal is still larger than most MLB cities. And where exactly were the Jays supposed to broadcast their games??

I agree with Kerri, reading between the lines I think he admits that Montrealers don't care about baseball. You have some niches groups here and there, enough to get the O filled up for those two meaningless spring training games, but if you ask random montrealers they would struggle to name all 30 MLB teams. I keep asking about Mike Trout and 9 times out of ten they have no idea. It gets worse outside of the city, although Quebec City has a solid core of baseball fanatics for whatever reason. I don't have numbers to back that claim but I'm certain soccer and football are way more popular, and way more part of the collective consciousness. Jays and Jays' ownership were within their rights to solidify their own markets, it's just that it exposed the ugly truth that Montreal does not care about baseball like say lots of american cities do. Also, comparatively to other NA markets, Montreal was financially poor and struggling up until quite recently.

Also, Habs have fans all across Canada and are tied to a nationalist sentiment unlike any other club in the major leagues, I don't think you can compare both situations.

I mean, you have one of the most beloved players of his generation reaching the eternal 3000 hits plateau and the attendance was of 13,540.

You could say a lot of the same things about Jays fans though. Baseball always comes second to hockey. Both Torontonians and Montrealers will support a winning baseball team, but when the team is playing badly that support collapsed. With the hockey teams, fan support is much more constant, particularly in Toronto (that's not necessarily a compliment -- Toronto hockey fans will tolerate way too much mediocrity, whereas Montreal fans are smart enough not to tolerate that shit).

At the time (late '90's) I thought a new stadium in Montreal wasn't the solution, but now I'm not so sure after seeing what it's done for other teams in recent years after moving from suburban multipurpose stadiums into downtown baseball only parks (e.g. Pittsburgh, SF).

Finished it ... it was about what I expected -- an easy read that brought back a lot of memories. It feels like he barely scratched the surface on a lot of things, he interviewed about one hundred people and could probably fill up another book just with stories and oral histories if he wanted.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClpmHHLXIAASM57.jpg

this makes me sad.

allo

Now, just because a group of investors have met MLB’s conditions, it does not mean baseball’s return to Montreal is imminent. Hardly. Commissioner Rob Manfred has said he wants the Rays and Athletics to get new ballparks before considering expansion, plus MLB would surely open up the bidding to multiple cities.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/investors-have-reportedly-met-mlbs-conditions-to-bring-a-team-back-to-montreal/

Bleh, we already have enough taxes and debt like it is, and no way a stadium is built without some government funding. I love baseball, of course, and would welcome an expansion team, but that scam has been going for too long.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8RqHFPXUAE9QhE.jpg

makeshift bullpens at the O

Such a brutal stadium.

i agree, it is a masterpiece of brutalism

i don't think it's really any worse than the other 70s stadiums like three rivers/riverfront/the vet. which admittedly isn't saying much

Now, just because a group of investors have met MLB’s conditions, it does not mean baseball’s return to Montreal is imminent.

no, it means manfred has a francophone stick with which to beat the local oakland and tampa governments

un baton.

le bâton

lol

French government has been trying to reform that accent out of existence since 2008. You could say it is a bit like the Expos.

id say i liked the view from my cheap seats better than i ever enjoyed the view from the cheap seats at the skydome.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/rob-manfreds-three-expansion-cities

I guess it's not universally accepted that manfred's just yapping to get Oakland and TB their taxpayer parks

i'm sure that's part of it, but . . . the rockies paid a $95m expansion fee in 1992. the new las vegas team in the nhl just paid $500m. a new baseball team would be $1b at least, i would think, of straight-up free money? even split 30 ways that's a lot

i don't think it'll happen before those two teams get their parks though. really, they need to be relocated before anyone even thinks about expansion, but that isn't coming from a $$ standpoint.

i agree with AGon though, if the goal of mexico expansion is to open up the entire country's market and/or diplomatic baseball reasons, it doesn't need to be a logistical nightmare like mexico city. monterrey is at least a hell of a lot closer to the rest of the league and shorter than denver by several thousand feet.

Jered Weaver in a brutalist bullpen would think his fastball is roughly 110 mph.

Montreal can't afford a new ballpark/billionaire's scam. Montreal can't afford a new ballpark/billionaire's scam. Montreal can't afford a new ballpark/billionaire's scam.

otm. isn't carey price enough?

http://phildellio.tripod.com/raines.jpg

Oh man.

<3

Posnanski pointed out the other day how incredibly close they were during their Expos years:

Games played in Montreal:

Tim Raines: 1,452
Andre Dawson: 1,443

WAR in Montreal:

Tim Raines: 48.5
Andre Dawson: 48.1

This video is worth checking out. Stick around until the end, the last throw they show is unbelievable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQwfvNtAFyk

I remember when Ellis Valentine got hit in the face with a pitch and wore this helmet. Always thought this was a pretty cool card.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IBmZyF9wrGA/TVjWUNxAV1I/AAAAAAAAQUU/0YwpFu8NaXo/s1600/ellis_card.jpg

Lot of big name players in that Valentine clip. I believe that is Dale Murphy in that one against the Braves.

jacksonville expos cap circa 1985-90. nice

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyVrJQzXQAAzY7j.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-0cveIWsAEYs6D.jpg

Pitching another monster game through 5 (59 strikes, 19 balls!).

Somewhat related: going to the Canadian HOF for the first time on Wednesday. I hope there's more than a Fergie Jenkins jersey and a couple of Joey Votto's bats...

For a long time I just assumed Tim Raines was canadian because he got inducted there.

Would love to learn why LB Pearson is inducted if you can report for me.

My guess would be he had a hand in getting Montreal a team--he was PM up till '68? I think there are a bunch of non-Canadian Jays and Expos in there.

"Canada’s 14th Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson, was a fine all-around athlete who participated in a variety of sports, including hockey, football, rugby, basketball and lacrosse. But baseball was Pearson’s true passion. He suited up alongside his brother, Vaughan, with the Guelph Maple Leafs of the Ontario Intercounty Baseball League and attended games at Toronto’s famed Hanlan’s Point stadium as a youngster.

Later in life, the Nobel Peace Prize winner served as an honorary board member with the Montreal Expos. After his death, the Pearson Cup, named in his honour, was presented to the winner of an annual exhibition game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos from 1978 to 1986."

So...he liked baseball seems to be the reason.

Go, Expos!

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/would-the-expos-have-won-the-1994-world-series/

In a word--three words--no, probably not (says Neil Paine).

Not sure if it will last--attendance is understandably sporadic--but I've been doing a couple of volunteer hours per week at the Canadian Baseball HOF. (As I mentioned when I moved to St. Mary's, a five-minute walk from my house.) I was scanning old Expos photos this morning, as they digitize their collections. Chris Nabholz, Bob Natal, Graig Nettles (had to check the spelling), Al Newman, Reid Nichols, Steve Nicosia, Otis Nixon; I'll have to mention that they need a file for Tom Nieto.

awesome

In 1958, a 30 yo Tommy Lasorda was the International league's most valuable pitcher, thanks to his 18-6 record, his 2.50 ERA and 1.16 WHIP. He was also an assistant to manager Clay Bryant (left) and the team's traveling secretary. pic.twitter.com/ExS6csoCIR

— The Montreal Royals (@Royals_46season) January 8, 2021

Not sure if it will last--attendance is understandably sporadic--but I've been doing a couple of volunteer hours per week at the Canadian Baseball HOF. (As I mentioned when I moved to St. Mary's, a five-minute walk from my house.) I was scanning old Expos photos this morning, as they digitize their collections. Chris Nabholz, Bob Natal, Graig Nettles (had to check the spelling), Al Newman, Reid Nichols, Steve Nicosia, Otis Nixon; I'll have to mention that they need a file for Tom Nieto.

― clemenza, Thursday, July 30, 2020 12:55 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

awesome

― mookieproof, Thursday, July 30, 2020 1:00 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

clemenza and mookieproof otm.

Random memory of Harry Caray absolutely butchering the pronunciation of "Nicosia."

Back in the spring, but thus far it's been a lot less glamorous than I envisioned a year ago. I thought I'd be out clubbing with Carlos Delgado and John Olerud; mostly I've been weed-whacking around park benches.

Bought a dozen pocket schedules at the Toronto card show today, 1989-2004, $1 each (missing '91/93/00/01, but already found pretty cheap on eBay). The guy had early ones going back to the '70s, but they were more expensive. Also cards for Bobby Wine, Mack ("the Knife") Jones, and John Boc-a-BELL-a from the '70 Topps set. They were mint and only $1--must be reprints.

On the Jays front, a couple of Syracuse Chiefs media guides from the mid-'80s for $5 each.