Nearly 47 years to the day after Montreal was awarded an expansion Major League Baseball franchise, the city’s current mayor met this week with commissioner Rob Manfred to discuss resurrecting the Expos.
Montreal has been without baseball since 2004 when the Expos were moved to Washington and became the Nationals. But on Thursday, Mayor Denis Coderre took a big step in his attempts to bring back baseball when he met with Manfred in New York to show him that Montreal is “serious about baseball.”
For the past two seasons the Toronto Blue Jays have held exhibition games in Montreal at Olympic stadium, all of which were well received and had 45,000-plus fans in attendance.