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Wilcox's report also included a statement from Richard C. Marius, director of Expository Writing, explaining why he considered it "administratively impossible" to establish a link between the Core and Expos programs.
Dave McNally is a happy man, but on December 4, 1974, he was not happy. On that day, McNally, Rich Coggins and Ed Kirkpatrick were traded from the Orioles to the Montreal Expos, for Mike Torrez and Ken Singleton. McNally did not want to play in Montreal. He decided to...
McNally, along with fellow plaintiff Andy Messersmith and Curt Flood, who lost a similar case five years earlier, freed major leaguers from the shackles of the reserve clause. A federal court ruled that he did not have to report to the Montreal Expos if he did not want to.
McNally, owner of a 184-119 lifetime record, never pitched for the Expos. But he never pitched anywhere else after that.
The deep pitching staff and a superhuman effort kept them close, but when the season boiled down to a crucial series with Philadelphia, the Expos' bats went flat.