For many baseball fans, the lasting image of the Montreal Expos is a cash-strapped team that played before mostly empty seats in a sterile stadium known as the Big Owe.
Steve Rogers prefers to remember the good times, when the continent's most European city was as giddy over the national pastime as anywhere in the United States.
"It was a really great baseball city," Rogers said Friday when reached by phone, "and a different kind of baseball city."
Montreal hasn't had a major league team since the Expos left Quebec after the 2004 season, moving to Washington and becoming the Nationals.