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SIR GEORGE WILLL'Mo UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MONTREAL ifrtwiir. I.'.-- Ltiu ttu h M h • +" ,V ^r ZSSSJgnr. W w * 1" ■■'■ ;. : :«WK fT rf'^ V V - -'v> \4;_: L i**® * !pY»YiS‘|v®is %2!i»Ss 1 2 2 S * * m m . a **. p n t T e Another Montreal First The Expo's story started in February 1965, when there was May 27, 1968 - The history-making meeting starts at 10:30 a.m. a strong possibility of one or two National League franchises being On the first ballot Montreal received 10 votes. On the second round transferred. Mayor Jean Drapeau took this opportunity to send Montreal was the unanimous choice of the League owners much to two members of the city Executive Committee, its president, Lu- surprise of those who thought they would never see Major League cien Saulnier and vice-president, Gerry Snyder, to visit Baseball Baseball in Montreal. expos Commissioner Ford Frick to explore Montreal's chances of ob It was 2:30 in the afternoon when President Warren Giles an taining one of the National Baseball League franchises. nounced that the first franchise had been awarded to Montreal, Frick gave them a good reception, but his remarks could best but it was not until 10:00 pm that Snyder and crew were informed be summarized as follows: "First build a stadium suited to major of the league's choice. The League Executive had decided to wait league baseball then Montreal will become a serious candidate until the second team, San Diego, had been chosen. And so, in less if a franchise is to be transferred or if the ranks of the leagues than 12 hours, Snyder saw 18 months of work become a success. are enlarged a second time." All was not done however, the team needed an administration After this meeting, Saulnier lost his enthusiasm but Snyder and also a stadium in which to play. persisted in his drive and when, in December 1967, the National The head staff was quickly hired, John McHale and Jim Fanning League desided to add two new clubs to its ranks, Snyder was both leaving the Commissioner's Office to come to Montreal, there to do the groundwork. then the Autostade was chosen as the home park. The National League would have waited until 1971 fordts second expansion, but seeing that the American League had decided to add two clubs in 1969, they could not chance the possibility of the American League grabbing up all new young talent. The following month, Snyder, armed with a letter from Mayor Drapeau, visited financier Jean-Louis Levesque in Florida to try and interest him in this new project. Levesque ended up making the proposition: "I have a race horse called Good Day that you can have for $5,000. If you buy I'll invest $1,000,000.00 in your new enterprise." Encouraged by this success, Snyder then visited Judge Hofheinz, owner of the Houston Astros, Walter O'Malley of the Los Angeles Dodgers and many other Baseball personalities to whom he ex pounded on the success of 'expo 67' which became a strong selling point for the Montreal franchise. In March, Snyder, still brandishing Mayor Drapeau's letter, discussed the enterprise with Charles Bronfman, John Newman, Sydney Maislin and Lome Webster who all decided to join in the venture after listening to Snyder and his convincing arguments. During this time a Montreal Public Relations firm had carefully prepared a presentation which was sent to all National League club owners who were scheduled to meet in May to finally decide upon their two choices for league expansion. L to R.: Jim Fanning, Charles Bronfman, John McHale. In July however, problems started to develop. Jean-Louis Le to the vesque and two other investors withdrew, the future didn't look too bright. The headaches became even larger when the Autos- tacie had to be dropped, but at the last moment all was saved by two members of the press, Marcel Desjardins and Russ Taylor graduates who both proposed a visit to Jarry Park. National League President Warren Giles accompanied by league attorney Bowie Kuhn and Mayor Drapeau visited Jarry Park. who need Giles was satisfied with the park and Mayor Drapeau assured him AUTHENTIC of a 30,000 seating capacity. BELL BOTTOMS On August 14th, 1969 Montreal officially became a member of money the National Baseball League with the deposit of $1,120,000 in the league treasury, the first payment of a $10,000,000 franchise ARE HERE price. A Board of Directors was quickly formed with Charles Bronf IMMEDIATE man as Chairman, John McHale was named President and Chief DELIVERY! Executive Officer and Jim Fanning became General-Manager. Now the activity started to pick up. Guys and Gals WALK ON On September 5th, Gene Mauch was appointed Manager and at THE WIDE SIDE in the the same time the name "EXPOS" was chosen for the team. greatest Funwear ever. On October 14th, the Expos chose 30 players in the draft and Black, white, blue, brown soon after, other players were added to the roster. and fancy denims in all sizes. TEMPORARY WORK You'll love the shape you're AVAILABLE in ... so will your favourite If you need money to buy a car, office date. 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Telepho ne: 879-4585 and 879-4581. Telex: 01-26193. Advertisinrj offices are located in room 639. Messrs. H. KrupfP' Rosenfeld, telephone: 879-4462. Cornucopia "it's what happening" a supplement of tt.5» georgian EDITORS: Morris Rosenfeld Howard l^rupp Typeset and litho: Journal Offset Inc. 254 Benj amin Hudon, Montreal, 9. 331-9721. Expos- games t o be televised Major league baseball fa ns in all parts of Canada will see the Montreal Expos on television in 196?. The English and French networks of the CB£ will jointly present 15 of the Expos' regular season Natural League games. An 'additional six games will be telecast on the CBC's French net'5Col'k only. In all 21 Expog' games will be televised. ' O'Keefe Brewing Co. Ltd. will be a 50°/i, sponsor of the Expos' 21-game TV schedule, it was announced today by official:; of the CBC, the Expos and theO'Keefe Company. \ J The schedule will include telecasts of baf’h home and away games of the Expos' first season in the National tgague. Of t)*ese 15 games to be carried by both CBC networks (the 44-station coasVt°'coc"*^” English n e tw o rk a nd 12-station French n e tw o rk), 10 will originate from*>£6??yeal and five from o th e r cities. The addi- tional six games to be carried on ‘TPe French n e tw o rk w ill be three home and three road games, all on Wednesday niglTts. The total schedule will present 15 Wednesday nights, four Sunday afternoons and two weekday season openers. First game in the series will be Expos, season opener against the New York Mets from New York's Shea Stadium on Tuesday, April 8 at 2:00 p.m. The Expos, home opener, at Montreal's Jarry Park, against the 1968 National League champion St. Louis Cardinals will be presented on Monday, April 14, at 1 :30 p.m . Both openers will be televised on French and English networks. The television package marks several firsts in baseball telecasting. The series will be the first national telecast by an individual club of a major league game other than World Series and All-Star games. U.S. network telecast previously have been split regionally and have featured more than one game. The Wednesday night series of games is the first weekday series involving a Major League team on a national network. Groovy clothes for the family 1130 Sherbrooke St. West, corner Stanley SCHEDULE t h e ^ U a n e r sfioe j&fjojppes inc. 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