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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Team: Montreal Expos	Opening Day: April 15, 1977
Capacity: 43,739 (2003) 58,838 (1977)	Dimensions: CF 404, Power Alleys 375, Foul Lines 325
Surface: Astroturf	Architect: Roger Taillibert, Paris, France
Cost: over $1 Billion	Owner: City of Montreal

Memorable Moments:

1982 All Star Game.
April 13, 1984: Pete Rose collects career hit number 4,000.
August 6, 1999: Tony Gwynn collects career hit number 3,000.

The Spacecraft U.S.S. Olympic Stadium

Indoor baseball is terrible. I hate it. The stadium is cavernous, impersonal, and has artificial turf. The retractable roof no longer retracts. It looks like an old Star Trek spaceship. The walls and seats of the stadium looked very 70's, and not in the John Travolta kind of way.

Red Sox vs. Expos, July 15, 2001

Unfortunately, Montreal doesn't support its team, the strike really hurt them. They played the Red Sox there and someone referred to it as Fenway North and they weren't kidding. They were easily double the amount of Sox fans there as Expo lovers. Montreal is a great city, but a hockey city. The stadium is terrible, needs repair, and the team is not a big seller. I hate to say it, but I think Major League Baseball needs to dissolve this team.

The Expos retired numbers are (in numerical order):

8 Gary Carter (1993)
10 Rusty Staub (1993)
10 Andre Dawson (1997)
30 Tim Raines (2004)