TRIVIA

Montreal Expos Trivia Questions

ANSWERS

  1. Maury Wills. Batting leadoff for the Expos on April 8, 1969, Wills was traded back to the Dodgers two months later. He had previously been a Dodger from 1959 to 1966.
  2. Nolan Ryan.
  3. Coco Laboy, the Expos All-Star Rookie 3rd baseman in 1969.
  4. Ken Singleton. What were the Expos thinking when they traded him and Torrez to Baltimore for Dave McNally and Rich Coggins?
  5. Tommy Lasorda, who managed the National League All-Star team in 1978, 1979, 1982 (in Montreal) and 1989.
  6. Tim Foli, who hit for the cycle in 1976, was traded to the San Francisco Giants for Chris Speier on April 15, 1977. Speier would hit for the cycle on August 20, 1981.
  7. Ellis Valentine.
  8. Tony Perez. An Expo from 1977 to 1979, he was a rookie with the Cincinnati Reds in 1964, the year Duke Snider retired from the San Francisco Giants.
  9. Andre Dawson won the Rookie of the Year Award with the Expos in 1977, and then won the MVP Award with the Cubs in 1987.
  10. Carl Morton, who won 18 games in 1970.
  11. Tommy Hutton was the leader of the Broke Underrated Superstars.
  12. Ron LeFlore and Rodney Scott combined for 160 stolen bases in 1980, thereby breaking the record set by the Cardinals’ Lou Brock and Bake McBride in 1974. Both LeFlore and Scott were out of baseball by 1983.
  13. Bill Gullickson struck out 18 Chicago Cubs as a rookie in 1980. He and the Cro were teammates in Montreal from 1979 to 1983, and then in Japan in 1988 and 1989. Gully’s record was broken by Kerry Wood on May 6, 1998.
  14. Steve Rogers, Tim Wallach, and Tim Raines.
  15. Wallace J. Gonzales.
  16. Darryl Strawberry. His homer on Opening Day (April 5), 1988, touched the roof as part of a 10-6 Mets victory. He won World Series rings with the Mets in 1986, and with the Yankees in 1996 and 1998.
  17. Rick Dempsey homered in the top of the 23rd inning to put the Dodgers on top, 1-0, on August 23, 1989. He had been a World Series MVP for the Orioles in 1983.
  18. Charlie Lea. He started the 1984 All-Star Game. Steve Rogers started in 1982.
  19. Rene Gonzales
  20. Darryl Strawberry. His homer on Opening Day (April 5), 1988, touched the roof as part of a 10-6 Mets victory. He won World Series rings with the Mets in 1986, and with the Yankees in 1996 and 1998.
  21. Pedro Martinez. On June 2, 1995, he pitched a nine inning perfect game against the Padres at San Diego. With one out in the tenth, he surrendered a double to Bip Roberts
  22. Joe Siddall. He went to Assumption High in Windsor, where Bertoia taught History.
  23. Wallace Johnson, now a coach for Jerry Manuel on the Chicago White Sox.
  24. Andrés Galarraga
  25. Carl Pavano.
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