OK, but just for a little while

Written By Andrew Linker

Marginally adequate – and that is debatable – Parc Jarry gets the OK 57 years ago today to be used by the Montreal Expos for their inaugural season in 1969.

Major League Baseball tells Montreal that its new team may use Parc Jarry only so long as the Expos have a new stadium ready by 1972.

Montreal’s Parc Jarry

Alas, the Expos never build a new stadium, instead staying at Parc Jarry through the 1976 season before moving into the repurposed but equally marginally adequate Olympic Stadium.

The Expos stay there until the end of the 2004 season, when Major League Baseball, by then running the team as an orphan of the state, unceremoniously uproots the franchise and moves it to Washington, D.C.

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