Posts Tagged ‘Montreal Expos’

The Nationals Honor Their Heritage

Pictured: Andre Dawson waving and Gary Carter (on the right).  Photo by Ian Koski / Nationals Daily News
Gary Carter showed up at Nationals Park Tuesday to help the Washington Nationals honor his former teammate. Much to his surprise, the Nationals hadn’t reserved all of the night’s festivities for 2010 Hall of Fame inductee Andre Dawson [...]

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A Look at the Expos’ Place in Nationals History

‘my trusty, soon-to-be-retired expos hat’
courtesy of ‘permanently scatterbrained’
The Nationals announced Tuesday afternoon that the team will be honoring 2010 Hall of Fame inductee Andre “The Hawk” Dawson, who played for the franchise in Montreal with a tri-colored Expos cap atop his head from 1976-1986, on August 10 at Nationals Park.
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Nationals To Host “Expos Day”? It Could Happen…

‘More than Half-Empty’
courtesy of ‘Kevin H.’
Before Washington got the Nationals, our boys in red were shagging flies and blasting runs as the FIRST Major League Baseball club to play outside of the states. The Montreal Expos, who started as a National League expansion team in 1969, changed their Canadian mailing address and club name on [...]

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