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SABR36 Presentation: 1979: A Victory for the Expos, a “Save” for Montreal? (Maxwell Kates)
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SABR36 Presentation: 1979: A Victory for the Expos, a “Save” for Montreal? (Maxwell Kates)
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| By The SABR Office |
2:30–3PM, Federal Room
1979: A Victory for the Expos, a “Save” for Montreal? (S17)
Maxwell Kates
Years of mediocre (at best) baseball, seas of empty seats in a dank and unappealing stadium, inability to attract free agents, political uncertainty, language barrier, lots of red ink. Is this Montreal, circa 2001? No, right team, wrong year … this describes the 1978 Expos. In the very next year, however, the Expos won 95 games, finishing just two games behind the “We Are Fam-A-Lee” Bucs in the NL East. It was the start of a four-year run of strong Montreal clubs consistently challenging for the Eastern Division lead. Maxwell Kates profiles the first heyday of the Expos, offering insights into perhaps the most underappreciated year of an ill-fated franchise.
Maxwell Kates (BUS79@sympatico.ca) is a former radio broadcaster and standup comedian who notes that "when those got boring, I decided to become an accountant." A SABRite since 2001, he is the Director of Marketing for the Hanlan's Point Chapter. He has lectured on baseball at York University and Seneca College, and his baseball credits also include The National Pastime, Elysian Fields Quarterly, and the CBC. An Ottawa native now living in Toronto, he has traveled to 16 countries, 17 current Major League ballparks, and five SABR conventions.
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