My Turn At Bat
The Sad Saga of the Montreal Expos
Claude Brochu, Gillian Sze, Evie Christie, Stephanie Myles and Claude Brochu
ECW Press
Livre numérique
The decline and fall of the Montreal Expos. In 1969, the Montreal Expos played
their first game. Thirty-two years later, the team that once boasted
baseball's best farm system is nearly dead. In this book, former Expos
president Claude Brochu gets to the bottom of the Expos' story. From his
successful marketing career at Seagram's, Claude Brochu was thrust into the
role of Expos president in 1986. Back then, the Expos were a team with
terrific potential. But as the years went by, attendance began to slide.
Whenever owner Charles Bronfman attended a game he would shake his head,
discouraged: "Why don't they come? What do we have to do?" The answer - field
a winning team - seemed so simple, yet so elusive. And then, after 21 years,
Bronfman decided to sell the team. He entrusted the sale to Brochu, who took
up the gauntlet: "I made it a personal challenge. Businessmen are often
portrayed as cold, emotionless people, who make decisions only on the eventual
possibility of making a lot of money.? But that's not it at all. What
fascinated me, what motivated me, was keeping the Expos in Montreal, in the
hands of Quebecers. One of them being me.?"
their first game. Thirty-two years later, the team that once boasted
baseball's best farm system is nearly dead. In this book, former Expos
president Claude Brochu gets to the bottom of the Expos' story. From his
successful marketing career at Seagram's, Claude Brochu was thrust into the
role of Expos president in 1986. Back then, the Expos were a team with
terrific potential. But as the years went by, attendance began to slide.
Whenever owner Charles Bronfman attended a game he would shake his head,
discouraged: "Why don't they come? What do we have to do?" The answer - field
a winning team - seemed so simple, yet so elusive. And then, after 21 years,
Bronfman decided to sell the team. He entrusted the sale to Brochu, who took
up the gauntlet: "I made it a personal challenge. Businessmen are often
portrayed as cold, emotionless people, who make decisions only on the eventual
possibility of making a lot of money.? But that's not it at all. What
fascinated me, what motivated me, was keeping the Expos in Montreal, in the
hands of Quebecers. One of them being me.?"
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