The move to get a new team for Montreal was the result of a seven-year-long effort led by Gerry Snyder, who at the time was the member from the district of Snowdon on Montreal City Council. In 1960, Montreal lost its International League team, the Montreal Royals, a Dodgers affiliate, when the parent team chose to locate its main farm team closer to its new home in L.A.
In the collective bargaining agreement signed with the players association in August 2002, contraction was prohibited through to the end of the contract in 2006. However, as the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, operator of Minnesota's Metrodome, won an injunction requiring the Twins to play there in 2002, MLB was unable to revoke the Twins franchise, and so had to keep both the Twins and Expos as part of the MLB schedule. To clear the way for Henry's group to assume ownership of the Red Sox, Henry sold the Marlins to Loria, and MLB purchased the Expos from Loria. Subsequently, the Boston Red Sox were sold to a partnership led by John W. In November 2001, MLB's owners voted 28–2 to contract MLB by two teams-according to various sources, the Expos and the Minnesota Twins, both of which reportedly voted against contraction. Brochu sold control of the team to Jeffrey Loria in 1999, but Loria failed to close on a plan to build a new downtown ballpark, and did not reach an agreement on television and English radio broadcast contracts for the 2000 season, reducing the team's media coverage. After the disappointment of 1994, Expos management began shedding its key players, and the team's fan support dwindled. Alou would become the leader in Expos games managed while guiding the team to winning records, including 1994, when the Expos, led by a talented group of players including Larry Walker, Moisés Alou, Marquis Grissom and Pedro Martínez, had the best record in the major leagues until the strike forced the cancellation of the remainder of the season. In May 1992, Felipe Alou, a long time member of the Expos organization since 1976, was promoted to field manager, becoming the first Dominican-born manager in MLB history. Buck Rodgers, manager since the 1985 season and, at that time, second only to Gene Mauch in number of Expos games managed, was replaced early in the 1991 season. The team won its only division championship in the strike-shortened split season of 1981, ending its season with a 3 games to 2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series.Īfter a number of up-and-down seasons, the team was sold to a consortium of owners in 1991, with Claude Brochu as the managing general partner. The Expos began the 1980s with a core group of young players, including catcher Gary Carter, outfielders Tim Raines and Andre Dawson, third baseman Tim Wallach, and pitchers Steve Rogers and Bill Gullickson. After a decade of losing seasons, the team won a franchise-high 95 games in 1979, finishing second in the National League East. Following the 1976 Summer Olympics, starting in 1977 the team's home venue was Montreal's Olympic Stadium. The team's initial majority owner was Charles Bronfman, a major shareholder in Seagram.
Named after the Expo 67 World's Fair, the Expos started play at Jarry Park Stadium under manager Gene Mauch. The Montreal Expos ( Template:Lang-fr) were a Major League Baseball team located in Montreal, Quebec from 1969 until the end of the 2004 season, when the team was moved to Washington, D.C.
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