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...MOVING. MONTREAL EXPOS, to Washington, D.C., after 36 years in Canada. Major League Baseball, which bought the financially troubled team three years ago, picked Washington as the team's new home, the city's first Major League team since 1971. The Expos can expect a new owner, a new stadium and a new name. CHARGED. PHIL SPECTOR, 64, eccentric record producer who created the "wall of sound" pop style in the 1960s; with the murder of Lana Clarkson, 40, in his home last year; in Los Angeles. The actress was working as a hostess at the House of Blues...
Montreal’s not a “baseball town,” they say. Well it was to me. Sure, the trip out to the Olympic Stadium, the “Big O,” as we called it, was a schlep. Sure the stadium was ugly, with ugly Astroturf, an ugly roof and ugly seating. But I never minded...
...Expos were my team. Our team. Nos amours. If we fans weren’t at the stadium, we were watching the 40 or so games that were televised at home. The French announcers fell in love with Rondell White, partly because he was a great player, but mostly, I believe, because “Rondell” means hockey puck in French. But when Rondell would hit one and Expos announcer Rodger Brullote would shout “Bonsoir, elle est partie! Ronnnndelll! Ronnnndelll!!!” real baseball fans, like myself, jumped with...
...Expos lost the first game and were eliminated before the second one even began, with a Padres victory on the West Coast taking the hearts out of thousands of Montreal faithful at Olympic Stadium watching on the jumbotron. Still, 30,000 fans showed up for that final, meaningless game, which the Expos won 6-3. Vladimir Guerrero, then an untested rookie, hit a single. I know, because I was there...
This year’s changes to enforcement originate not with University Hall, however, but with the Boston Police Department, according to Mahan’s email. Mahan said he and Deans Kidd and McLoughlin are researching alternatives. Because the stadium is located across the Charles—in Allston, not Cambridge—it is under the jurisdiction of Boston police...