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Alain Usereau ✓ 3 review characters É eBook or Kindle ePUB ✓ Alain Usereau read The Expos in Their Prime: The Short-Lived Glory of Montreal's Team, 1977-1984 Of its lifetime popularity during that period They were in fact even popular than the beloved hockey playing Canadiens in Montreal and the most popular sport It s a great book I followed the team at this time uite a bit and his observations suare with what I rememberedA lot of the drug stuff regarding the team and others this was an unfortunate time was only hinted at in the papersBut the Expos had heart and some great players and great ownership and they built a successful team fairly uicklyLiving in Detroit and watching them on CBC they were very different from the plodding 3 run HR Tigers the Exposran aggressively and they knocked people down They were experts at stealing bases stealing signs and the hiddenball trick Looking back the one thing that was not obvious to me was that Dick Willliams was so unpopular or that thereal leader of the team was Larry Parrish This book does not get too much into the nitty gritty of the baseball itself or there might be discussion of the real impact of the loss of Tony Bernazard but it does follow the team thecommunity and the personalities of the players very well

Alain Usereau ✓ 3 review characters É eBook or Kindle ePUB ✓ Alain Usereau read The Expos in Their Prime: The Short-Lived Glory of Montreal's Team, 1977-1984 S team in Canada The book depicts how the team reached that level of support from the whole country and also why they were not able to sustain that excellence Originally written in French author Alain Usereau has published an English version of L Epoue Glorieuse des Expos The Expos in Their Prime The seasons covered are 1977 1984 During this stretch the Expos became Canada s team Having very good players and winning records had the Expos several times drawing over two million fans and having over fifty thousand fans at some games Contained are interviews with former Expos and details of each season As the team s popularity grew Blue Jays owners had Expos broadcasts blocked in Toronto This displeased Expos fans living there Great book

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Alain Usereau ✓ 3 review characters É eBook or Kindle ePUB ✓ Alain Usereau read The Expos in Their Prime: The Short-Lived Glory of Montreal's Team, 1977-1984 In the late s and early s the Montreal Expos provided their fans with spectacular play produced by spectacular players The team was able to reach the pinnacle Good Condition

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• The Expos in Their Prime: The Short-Lived Glory of Montreal's Team, 1977-1984
• Alain Usereau
• en
• 22 March 2019
• 078647081X