Saw my first MLB game at Jarry Parc on July 4th,1970. Expos (behind a Steve Renko shutout) defeated Steve Carlton and the Cardinals 8-0. A great memory.
Looked it up, really happened. Renko scattered six hits, struck out 10. He had a decent career. Montreal scored 8 runs in five innings off Carlton, including home runs by Bob Bailey, Adolfo Phillips, and Rusty Staub's' 12th of the season. Don Hahn had 3 hits. That year the future hall-of-famer Carlton lost 19 games.
How cool -- Hal Kelly, older brother of legendary hockey announcer Dan Kelly, on the play-by-play here. Hal, of course, had his own fine broadcasting career... as a life-long St. Louis Blues fan, I remember Hal filling in for Dan on a Blues radio broadcast when Dan would be away working for CBS on its Game of the Week.
A young Don Chevrier took me off guard ... I always remember him in his later years announcing for the Jays- He looks so young here. I know it's been many years since his passing but RIP Chevy - Loved listening to you and Tony Kubak for Jays games.
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Great, look at Jarry Park. I didn't realize the Expos use the blue road uniforms that early. Were they the first? I know partly with Charlie Finley and partly just for color television multicolored uniforms did come into vogue around this time.
And one historic moment that went unnoticed-- Dal Maxvill hits a grand slam! He did have the biggest power year of his career in '69-- with 2 home runs and 32 RBIs, while hitting .175 for the season. In his 14 year career, Dal Maxvill was the ultimate 'good field, no hit' SS, with 6 home runs in 3898 at bats. Honorable mention has to go to another shortstop of that era, Ray Oyler who, in his six year career managed to hit .200 only once, when he hit .207 in '65. The most amazing of all the Maxvill/Oyler stats though was in 1968, when Oyler was the starting shortstop for the world champion Detroit Tigers (who beat Maxvill's Cards in the '68 Series)-- but here's the amazing stat-- That year, as the starting shortstop for the world champion Tigers, Ray Oyler hit .135.
I seem to recall the '68 Tigers experimented with OF Mickey Stanley at SS, trying anything to improve from the light-hitting Oyler. A year or two later they acquired Ed Brinkman, another great fielder who wasn't great with the bat. That was still a time when the SS position didn't put a premium on offense. Mark Belanger at Baltimore is an example of this. But yeah, Oyler was "unique".
For some odd reason, MikeB26, I always liked Ray Oyler, and was thrilled when I opened my packet of Topps and there was Oyler's card!! (Probably because as a baseball player, I myself hit in the range of both Oyler and Maxvill... but that's another story lol)
He and Bud Harrelson had a combined ABs of 8,642 and 13 HR's. With Ruth, this trio had a combined HR total of 727 HR's !!!! What a slugger's trio that was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I skipped school that Monday, 1.PM eastern time then I was sad 3 hours later. I thought Steve Rogers was a bad move, he was never used as a reliever, he admitted he was nervous so was I 9th INNING
The Montreal Expos produced SO MANY amazing players who went on to become stars! Gary Carter, Tim Raines, Larry Walker, Dennis Martinez, The Hawk Andre Dawson and Vladimir Guerrero Simply amazing. Whoever did their scouting to determine who they drafted should be in the Hall of Fame! I know I missed a couple more!
Dennis Martinez was already an accomplished veteran from the Orioles when the Expos acquired him. You might be thinking of Pedro, but he was produced by the Dodgers.
I would love to see MLB in the Dominican Republic, if the funds were available or if the country could afford it. The team would be filled with all stars, since so many greats come from DR. That seems to be the # 1 industry in the country.
I remember the Montreal mayor at that time Jean Drapeau (0:36). He said that the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal had less of a chance of running a deficit as it was him having a baby. Political cartoons throughout Canada had a field day with that comment when the cost of the games turned out to be far higher and at a massive deficit than could have ever been imagined
There was a "Grandfather Clause" that allowed players to go without a helmet, if they came up before 1970. There is a video of Carl Yastrzemski hitting a home run off Tom Seaver in the 1975 All-Star Game, and he wasn't wearing a helmet. The last MLB player to bat with no helmet was Red Sox catcher Bob Montgomery, in 1979.
It was made mandatory at the winter meetings in December 1970, i.e., taking effect for the 1971 season. It was grandfathered in, so it was optional for those already in the majors. Bob Montgomery of the Red Sox was the last player to bat without one, retiring after the 1979 season.
The things you learn even after nearly 50 years watching the game. I had made the comment in another video from the 60s as I noticed players had no helmets. I thought they had been mandated in the 50s but someone said the same thing, it wasn't until 1971 that they were and some players were grandfathered. They mentioned Norm Cash as one of the last to not wear a helmet. I did not realize someone still wasn't batting with a helmet until 1979. Incredible that it took nearly 60 years after Ray Chapman got killed that everyone wore a helmet. More incredible it's barely 40 years since all players do wear them.
If they exist. We're talking the CBC here. Either they lost those tapes or if they have them, will charge money and they probably don't think there's money to be made. By the way, I know for sure the radio tape doesn't exist of the first game. Dave van Horne said in an interview that someone back in Montreal didn't turn the recorder on. For some reason nobody realized the historical significance.
@pierrelevasseur2701 There is indeed existing tape of the first Expos radio broadcast and you can find it on TH-cam. But it was recorded by a fan off the radio. You are correct that the station did not record it.
Take a quick glimpse at the Mets' defense... and you'll spot Amos Otis playing left field. By the end of the year, he will be traded away to Kansas City for Joe Foy... just one of the many bad trades New York made during those days!
Joe Foy was thought to be an excellent prospect with the Red Sox, and was a key component in their 1967 pennant drive. But Foy's career was derailed by smoking pot. It dulled his work ethic, caused weight gain, and ruined his talent.
@@davidlafleche1142 Foy was an excellent talent, young, fast, with good power. It could have been a good trade. On paper, it wasn't a bad deal, like the Nolan Ryan trade, which made no sense from the beginning (trading a young pitcher for an old shortstop). Foy's problem, as you mentioned, was drugs. It didn't help that coming to the Mets, he was also coming back to the New York. He was a Bronx kid, and going back to the old neighborhood and his old friends, he got screwed up. He later straightened himself out, but by then his career was over. Then he died young. In the case of Ryan, he didn't like New York and he didn't get along with Gil Hodges (so it said in the NY papers at the time). Hodges ran out of patience with his wildness and wanted to get rid of him, so the Mets traded him. The irony is that before Ryan played a single game with the Angels, Hodges was dead and Yogi Berra was the Mets manager.
@@RRaquello I still kick myself for giving my Nolan Ryan rookie card, along with all of my other baseball cards (except my '68 Tom Seaver) to my next-door neighbor when we moved to Connecticut in 1973. Worst trade in Met history - Ryan for Fregosi.
@@8avexp I still have my Nolan Ryan rookie card. Not mint condition, so it's not worth the millions of dollars they're asking for it on ebay, but VG, so maybe it's worth half that. I actually have that complete set. I bought it off some guy back in 1975 for about 40 bucks, and the guy threw in about 100 miscellaneous 1968 Topps commons. When I looked through the commons, I found 5 Johnny Bench rookie cards. I imagine they're worth something, though I haven't looked up the values on any of these for years. I quit collecting cards back in the 80's, but held on to what I had. (Rookie cards hadn't become a "thing" yet at that time. That whole rookie card idea was contrived by the dealers to give an artificial boost to certain card values. I mean, there's no intrinsic reason that a player's rookie card should be considered more valuable than his other cards.) My worst card catastrophe is that I have a 1973 Topps Mike Schmidt rookie card, but it was miscut at the factory, so it's way off center, which nobody even thought about at the time, but which I understand nowadays subtracts a lot from the value. Stupid crap like that is why I quit collecting cards.
There's a myth that the Expos weren't supported in Montreal. They were very well supported by the fans until they stopped being supported by the owners and the National League. Their attendance in the late 70s and early 80s were near the top of the league.
Mets players did that for as long as Shea Stadium stood (until 2008) as their parking lot was adjacent to the bullpen. In 1980 Jerry Morales (then a Met) had his windshield broken by an opposing homer which led him to dub Mark Bomback (who coughed up the homer) "Boom Boom".
Jarry Park was a cute little place. It was certainly better than Colt Stadium, Sick's Stadium or Exhibition Stadium. The only serious issue was cold weather.
Saw my first MLB game at Jarry Parc on July 4th,1970. Expos (behind a Steve Renko shutout) defeated Steve Carlton and the Cardinals 8-0. A great memory.
Pure poppycock ? Please post proof pronto, pics preferred
Get a life.
Jarry Park
Looked it up, really happened. Renko scattered six hits, struck out 10. He had a decent career. Montreal scored 8 runs in five innings off Carlton, including home runs by Bob Bailey, Adolfo Phillips, and Rusty Staub's' 12th of the season. Don Hahn had 3 hits. That year the future hall-of-famer Carlton lost 19 games.
How cool -- Hal Kelly, older brother of legendary hockey announcer Dan Kelly, on the play-by-play here. Hal, of course, had his own fine broadcasting career... as a life-long St. Louis Blues fan, I remember Hal filling in for Dan on a Blues radio broadcast when Dan would be away working for CBS on its Game of the Week.
A young Don Chevrier took me off guard ... I always remember him in his later years announcing for the Jays- He looks so young here. I know it's been many years since his passing but RIP Chevy - Loved listening to you and Tony Kubak for Jays games.
Bring back the expos
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Great footage.
Hard to believe Seaver got roughed up like that against an expansion team and then go on to win 25.
Dan McGinn? Certainly a "tell the grandkids" story for him hitting a homer off Seaver!
Baseball ⚾
And the world series to boot
Great, look at Jarry Park. I didn't realize the Expos use the blue road uniforms that early. Were they the first? I know partly with Charlie Finley and partly just for color television multicolored uniforms did come into vogue around this time.
Jim "Mudcat" Grant was the opening day starter in their first game in 1969. He pitched 1.1 innings and his era was 20.25. The Expos still won 11-10.
Didn’t Mudcat go to have some fine seasons with the A’s during their early and mid-70s glory?
This is tres bien! And that's about all the French I know - Thanks!
4:03 -- A rare glimpse of Amos Otis as a New York Met.
Saw the Expos play the Braves at Atlanta stadium in June of 1972….remember Boots Day ⚾️
Irony..Expos first game in ‘69 and last game (before moving to DC) in ‘04 both against Mets at Shea.
And the Expos clinched their lone Eastern Division title( 2nd half division crown that year )in 1981...at Shea Stadium.
50 years later World Champion but in another city .
@@coreylevine3856 and country.
@@jaycompany4886 United States
Coincidence, not irony
Make Montreal great again.
And one historic moment that went unnoticed-- Dal Maxvill hits a grand slam! He did have the biggest power year of his career in '69-- with 2 home runs and 32 RBIs, while hitting .175 for the season. In his 14 year career, Dal Maxvill was the ultimate 'good field, no hit' SS, with 6 home runs in 3898 at bats.
Honorable mention has to go to another shortstop of that era, Ray Oyler who, in his six year career managed to hit .200 only once, when he hit .207 in '65.
The most amazing of all the Maxvill/Oyler stats though was in 1968, when Oyler was the starting shortstop for the world champion Detroit Tigers (who beat Maxvill's Cards in the '68 Series)-- but here's the amazing stat-- That year, as the starting shortstop for the world champion Tigers, Ray Oyler hit .135.
Rusty after that blast looked home while leaning on the fence with a "are you kidding me? Maxvill with a grand slam?" look on his face.
I seem to recall the '68 Tigers experimented with OF Mickey Stanley at SS, trying anything to improve from the light-hitting Oyler. A year or two later they acquired Ed Brinkman, another great fielder who wasn't great with the bat. That was still a time when the SS position didn't put a premium on offense. Mark Belanger at Baltimore is an example of this. But yeah, Oyler was "unique".
@@bemore1134 stanley was the ss for tigers in the world series they had don wert at 3rd base who couldnt hit still won the world series
For some odd reason, MikeB26, I always liked Ray Oyler, and was thrilled when I opened my packet of Topps and there was Oyler's card!! (Probably because as a baseball player, I myself hit in the range of both Oyler and Maxvill... but that's another story lol)
He and Bud Harrelson had a combined ABs of 8,642 and 13 HR's. With Ruth, this trio had a combined HR total of 727 HR's !!!! What a slugger's trio that was !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Parc Jarry field is BLASTED, having just been snow plowed and blown. In black and white it looks like a game held in a golf fairway rough.
Wow that’ was great thanks again for posting
Very happy for the memories
Cool footage.
It was like a dream having an mlb team in Montreal. Won't never happen again.
Great memories!
1981 N.L.East Champions!!!!
2019 World Series Champions!!!!
@robbie G I think Jim Fanning may of left Steve Rogers in too long☹️
@robbie G I watched him on WOR TV when he was a lowly Met.I was glad the Expos beat the Phillies👍
I skipped school that Monday, 1.PM eastern time then I was sad 3 hours later. I thought Steve Rogers was a bad move, he was never used as a reliever, he admitted he was nervous so was I 9th INNING
@robbie G skipped school although it was painful, it became today a fantastic memory with all these videos. Thanks Utube
I remember John Bocabella and Ron Fairly
The Montreal Expos produced SO MANY amazing players who went on to become stars! Gary Carter, Tim Raines, Larry Walker, Dennis Martinez, The Hawk Andre Dawson and Vladimir Guerrero Simply amazing. Whoever did their scouting to determine who they drafted should be in the Hall of Fame! I know I missed a couple more!
And they let those players go to other teams, the story of the franchise until 2004
Dennis Martinez was already an accomplished veteran from the Orioles when the Expos acquired him. You might be thinking of Pedro, but he was produced by the Dodgers.
Quirky: the swimming pool,the people standing around behind the outfield walls. Closeness.
Nos amours!
Interesting perspective,literally,when you see people walking by the stadium as a game is being played.
There's a subway stop adjacent to Shea Stadium in Queens, New York so there are always people walking by going to/from the number 7 train.
Get em back up there!
I would love to see MLB in the Dominican Republic, if the funds were available or if the country could afford it. The team would be filled with all stars, since so many greats come from DR. That seems to be the # 1 industry in the country.
Some people forget what a solid player Joe Torre was
won an MVP and a batting title with a .363 average. not too shabby.
Awesome year he had in 71....363...and he was so slow ..if he had the speed of a Lou Brock, Torre woulda hit close to 400....
@@sportsrevisited9699 he was a all star player
J'aime bien l'orange avec le coco
I remember the Montreal mayor at that time Jean Drapeau (0:36). He said that the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal had less of a chance of running a deficit as it was him having a baby. Political cartoons throughout Canada had a field day with that comment when the cost of the games turned out to be far higher and at a massive deficit than could have ever been imagined
That's why I recognize his voice...Don Chevrier!
What happened to Mack Jones? He was quite a player
Wow, just noticed Maury Wills wasn’t wearing a helmet! When did Mlb mandate one?
He probably had plastic inserts in his cap which alot of players who had tenure in the league wore
There was a "Grandfather Clause" that allowed players to go without a helmet, if they came up before 1970. There is a video of Carl Yastrzemski hitting a home run off Tom Seaver in the 1975 All-Star Game, and he wasn't wearing a helmet. The last MLB player to bat with no helmet was Red Sox catcher Bob Montgomery, in 1979.
Tony Taylor and Norm Cash , too
It was made mandatory at the winter meetings in December 1970, i.e., taking effect for the 1971 season. It was grandfathered in, so it was optional for those already in the majors. Bob Montgomery of the Red Sox was the last player to bat without one, retiring after the 1979 season.
The things you learn even after nearly 50 years watching the game. I had made the comment in another video from the 60s as I noticed players had no helmets. I thought they had been mandated in the 50s but someone said the same thing, it wasn't until 1971 that they were and some players were grandfathered. They mentioned Norm Cash as one of the last to not wear a helmet. I did not realize someone still wasn't batting with a helmet until 1979. Incredible that it took nearly 60 years after Ray Chapman got killed that everyone wore a helmet. More incredible it's barely 40 years since all players do wear them.
wish someone would post the complete games of each??
If they exist. We're talking the CBC here. Either they lost those tapes or if they have them, will charge money and they probably don't think there's money to be made.
By the way, I know for sure the radio tape doesn't exist of the first game. Dave van Horne said in an interview that someone back in Montreal didn't turn the recorder on. For some reason nobody realized the historical significance.
@pierrelevasseur2701 There is indeed existing tape of the first Expos radio broadcast and you can find it on TH-cam. But it was recorded by a fan off the radio. You are correct that the station did not record it.
They would beat the eventual World Series 🏆Champion Mets 11-10 on Opening Day
How did the Astros lose Rusty Staub to an expansion team??
The Astros were on the take. Money under the table
Take a quick glimpse at the Mets' defense... and you'll spot Amos Otis playing left field. By the end of the year, he will be traded away to Kansas City for Joe Foy... just one of the many bad trades New York made during those days!
trading Nolan Ryan was a bad one for sure, but 69 was their year
Joe Foy was thought to be an excellent prospect with the Red Sox, and was a key component in their 1967 pennant drive. But Foy's career was derailed by smoking pot. It dulled his work ethic, caused weight gain, and ruined his talent.
@@davidlafleche1142
Foy was an excellent talent, young, fast, with good power. It could have been a good trade. On paper, it wasn't a bad deal, like the Nolan Ryan trade, which made no sense from the beginning (trading a young pitcher for an old shortstop). Foy's problem, as you mentioned, was drugs. It didn't help that coming to the Mets, he was also coming back to the New York. He was a Bronx kid, and going back to the old neighborhood and his old friends, he got screwed up. He later straightened himself out, but by then his career was over. Then he died young.
In the case of Ryan, he didn't like New York and he didn't get along with Gil Hodges (so it said in the NY papers at the time). Hodges ran out of patience with his wildness and wanted to get rid of him, so the Mets traded him. The irony is that before Ryan played a single game with the Angels, Hodges was dead and Yogi Berra was the Mets manager.
@@RRaquello I still kick myself for giving my Nolan Ryan rookie card, along with all of my other baseball cards (except my '68 Tom Seaver) to my next-door neighbor when we moved to Connecticut in 1973. Worst trade in Met history - Ryan for Fregosi.
@@8avexp
I still have my Nolan Ryan rookie card. Not mint condition, so it's not worth the millions of dollars they're asking for it on ebay, but VG, so maybe it's worth half that. I actually have that complete set. I bought it off some guy back in 1975 for about 40 bucks, and the guy threw in about 100 miscellaneous 1968 Topps commons. When I looked through the commons, I found 5 Johnny Bench rookie cards. I imagine they're worth something, though I haven't looked up the values on any of these for years. I quit collecting cards back in the 80's, but held on to what I had. (Rookie cards hadn't become a "thing" yet at that time. That whole rookie card idea was contrived by the dealers to give an artificial boost to certain card values. I mean, there's no intrinsic reason that a player's rookie card should be considered more valuable than his other cards.)
My worst card catastrophe is that I have a 1973 Topps Mike Schmidt rookie card, but it was miscut at the factory, so it's way off center, which nobody even thought about at the time, but which I understand nowadays subtracts a lot from the value. Stupid crap like that is why I quit collecting cards.
That Shea Stadium infield looked horrible especially for opening day.
Sad they didn't have color for the Home Opener. Although they did have a color game for their first ever game.
Is that a young Don Chevrier?
Yes indeed it is
Good ole rc cola
Mack Jones…Cleon’s brother….
Hockey, not baseball, is the national pastime in Canada.
Robert Masina yeah but Montreal, Vancouver, and Mexico City NEED a baseball team. If you think not please tell me why!
That's fine, but no one is contesting that, Robert.
thought it was curling
There's a myth that the Expos weren't supported in Montreal. They were very well supported by the fans until they stopped being supported by the owners and the National League. Their attendance in the late 70s and early 80s were near the top of the league.
Thought it was nude Lacrosse
Pretty stupid to park a car right behind the right field wall!!
Mets players did that for as long as Shea Stadium stood (until 2008) as their parking lot was adjacent to the bullpen. In 1980 Jerry Morales (then a Met) had his windshield broken by an opposing homer which led him to dub Mark Bomback (who coughed up the homer) "Boom Boom".
Bleacher seat tickets for 50 cents that first year.
Jarry Park was a cute little place. It was certainly better than Colt Stadium, Sick's Stadium or Exhibition Stadium. The only serious issue was cold weather.
This game is in New York not Montreal.
They showed highlights from both, one in New York and one in Montreal.
Jarry Park was a cute little place, far better than any "cookie-cutter."