Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos

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The definitive history of the Montreal Expos by the definitive Expos fan, the New York Times bestselling sportswriter and Grantland columnist Jonah Keri.
     2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team’s move to Washington, DC. But the memories are not dead–not by a long shot. The Expos pinwheel cap is still sported by Montrealers, former fans, and by many more in the United States and Canada as a fashion item. Annually there are rumours that Montreal–as North The usa’s largest market without a baseball team–could host Major League Baseball again.
     There has never been a major English-language book on all the franchise history. There also hasn’t been a sportswriter as uniquely qualified to tell the whole story, and to make it appeal to baseball fans across Canada AND south of the border. Jonah Keri writes the chief baseball column for Grantland, and mechanically makes appearances in Canadian media such as The Jeff Blair Show, Prime Time Sports and Off the Record. The creator of the New York Times baseball bestseller The Extra 2% (Ballantine/ESPN Books), Keri is likely one of the new generation of high-profile sports writers equally facile with sabermetrics and traditional baseball reporting. He has interviewed everyone for this book and fans can expect to hear from as regards to each player and personality from the Expos’ unforgettable 35 years in baseball.

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