He led the Expos to their only playoff berth and was the first player enshrined in Cooperstown wearing an Expos cap.
Their efforts went for naught when New York art dealer Jeffrey Loria bought a majority interest in the team and flipped it for the Florida Marlins, forcing the Expos to move to Washington.
Major League Baseball, a world of local TV deals and 81 annual games that make market size much more important, has had just one franchise move since 1970--that being the excursion of the struggling Montreal Expos to Washington, D.
Prior to the Montreal Expos relocating to Washington, D.
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The Marlins were baseball's least valuable team after the Montreal Expos, according to our latest ranking of baseball franchises (Apr. 28).
The Expos traded him to the Mets after the 1984 season for Hubie Brooks, Mike Fitzgerald, Herm Winningham and Floyd Youmans.
They sent four players, including their regular third baseman, to the Expos for Mr. Carter.
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More than 70, 000 square feet of space is available to lease for events ranging from fashion shows to automobile expos.
If his bid for the Twins isn't accepted, Watkins says, he will try to buy the Montreal Expos , a shell of a team currently owned by the league itself.
Long gone are the days of the Great Exhibition in London of 1851, the progenitor of all expos, when the point was to show off manufactured goods (and British industrial strength).
As a result, a loss in attendance would mean less for the state in lodging taxes and sales taxes on other items such as restaurant, souvenir and entertainment spending by those who travel to Baltimore for the expos.
For instance, the Baltimore expos contribute several million dollars a year to the local economy, Crenshaw said.
The Nationals and Orioles proximity yields roughly 25% fan overlap, a number that could be significantly lower if Major League Baseball, looking to move the sinking Montreal Expos, had simply put the club in Northern Virginia instead of D.
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Have richer teams like the New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians give a lot more of their revenues to poorer teams like the Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins and Oakland A's.
Born and raised in California, he took a Berlitz course to help him learn the language after the Expos drafted him.
Just before I came to speak to all of you today, I visited two expos right in another courtyard here that underscore the kind of progress we can make together.
Mr. Carter was heavily recruited to play college football, but ended up signing with the Expos in 1972.
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He had joked that he wanted his Cooperstown cap to be a half-and-halfer, split between the Expos and Mets.
But the Expos abruptly traded Mr. Carter after the team had a losing season and decided to rebuild.
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Bronfman graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1986, then returned to Montreal, where he worked briefly in the marketing department of the Expos, then owned by his father.
To Ganis, baseball's recent exposure to the shrinking economy is all the more proof that the only better option for the Expos than Northern Virginia four years ago would have been contraction.
To gently encourage animal lovers to think about their pets' mortality, Remkus sponsored walks held by shelters and attended pet expos.
However, the Nationals have made a concerted effort in recent years to honor Carter by not issuing the number and also respecting the history and legacy of the Montreal Expos.
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