My Turn At Bat: The Sad Saga of the Montreal Expos

by Claude R. Brochu, Daniel Poulin, Mario Bolduc

After 32 years, Montreal will soon lose its professional baseball team. The former president of the Expos explains how the team went from being one of major league baseball's most promising franchises to becoming a financial pariah, barely escaping extinction at the end of the 2001 season and now facing demise in 2002. This history of the team's troubled existence covers years of gradually declining revenue and attendance, the sale of the team to a consortium of business leaders in 1991, and the league's ongoing debate over eliminating the Expos once and for all.

Genres: Baseball, Sports

263 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Claude R. Brochu is the former president of the Expos. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is not about what happens on the field but about the battles within the ownership. Once you know that, it's a pretty enlightening read about what happened to this very popular team ruined by egotistical incompetents.

[Stavros · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read for those who want to know what really happened to the our beloved Expos.

[Lance · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a decent book on the struggles of Mr. Bolduc to gain support for a new baseball stadium in Montreal when they still had a major league club playing in the city. He was right...the team left Montreal for Washington two years after the book was published. It was more about politics, backstabbing and broken promises than it was about baseball. Therefore it was less satisfying than I had hoped but still okay.