Because I have such an affinity for Montreal, the ancestral home of my mother’s side of the family, I enjoy anything that has to do with the Expos. I don’t care what anyone says, I loved Jarry Park, which, not unlike Ebbets Field was to some Brooklyn Dodger fans, was walking distance from my aunt’s house in Outremont.
So it was with a sense of nostalgia that I read Ken Belson’s article in today’s New York Times about the upcoming exhibition games between the Mets and the Toronto Blue Jays, even though they will be played at Olympic Stadium.
Jonah Keri, author Up, Up, and Away, the new history about the Expos, gets a quote in the Times piece.
Reading this reminds me how much I hate Jeff Loria for f***ing up the team so royally. I spent the last week of the 2003 season in the Expos’ press box doing research for a book that never got done because they weren’t “contracted” that year as threatened by MLB. It was the first time I ever had to stay at a hotel because all the family had either passed away or moved away.
Required reading: In addition to Keri’s book, I recommend My Turn at Bat: The Sad Saga of the Montreal Expos
is available on Amazon.com,
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