Pro baseball in the form of the Frontier League’s Trois-Rivières Aigles and Schaumburg Boomers is set for Montreal’s Gary Carter Stadium on June 3. (more…)
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Revisiting the 1969 MLB Expansion Ballparks
With the 2019 season underway, it’s a good time to visit the Ballpark Digest archives and look at the 1969 MLB expansion ballparks, when the major leagues expanded by four teams. (more…)
Montreal To Fete Les Expos During MLB Exhibitions
With the Toronto Blue Jays in town next week for an annual preseason series, folks in Montreal — including the group seeking the return of MLB to the city — are planning a celebration of the original Montreal Expos, who entered the National League in 1969. (more…)
Revisiting 1969 Expansion: Jarry Park Stadium
The year 1969 was a big one in Major League Baseball, as four expansion teams were added to the mix. This month we’re looking back at the four expansion ballparks. Last week it was Sicks’ Stadium, home of the Seattle Pilots for a single season. This week we wrap up the series with a look […]
#TBT: Montreal’s Autostade
It was pitched by city officials as the first home of the Montreal Expos, and it certainly was one of the most unique sporting facilities ever built. Welcome to the Autostade, a centerpiece of Expo 67. (more…)
Should Montreal pursue MLB?
Baseball romantics and market researchers say conditions are right for Major League Baseball to return to Montreal — but others argue it’s a waste of time to bring back Expos 2.0. Hardcore baseball fans have fond memories of the Montreal Expos because the team, its players and its ballparks never fit within the stifling conformity […]
Gary Carter Stadium officially opens
Montreal is formally honoring former Expos great Gary Carter with a ballpark dedication and a street renaming near Jarry Park. Carter is arguably the greatest former Expo — apologies to Andre Dawson and Vladimir Guerrero — especially when you considered how hard Carter worked on the fine art of community service. He was an Expo […]
Cromartie: We’re launching feasibility study on return of MLB to Montreal
Former Expo Warren Cromartie has assembled a professional team to determine the feasibility of a return of Major League Baseball to Montreal. The feasibility and survey study will be undertaken by Cromartie’s group, Montreal Baseball Project, as well as Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal (BTMM), Ernst & Young and BCF LLP. “I am pleased to […]
Montreal honors Carter with street, ballpark namings
With the Washington Nationals in the playoffs, the Montreal Expos have been in the news as well — and the city added to that by announcing honors for one of the team’s biggest stars, Gary Carter. A street next to Jarry Park, where Carter began his Expos career, will be named in honor of the […]
No, Canada
Prospects for Minor League Baseball returning to Ottawa and Montreal have dimmed in recent weeks, as a lack of funding for new and improved facilities is proving to be an impediment to any franchise shifts. With the rebound of the Canadian dollar, MiLB teams moving into Canada has been seen by many owners as a […]
Jarry Park / Montreal Expos / 1969-1976
Jarry Park was a small, single-deck ballpark originally constructed as a temporary stadium — one that ended up being used seven seasons as the first home of the Montreal Expos. As such, it was the site of the first MLB regular-season game played outside of the United States on April 14, 1969, in a game […]