RIP Gary Carter.
I don't get many opportunities to remember the Expos anymore. This is one of them. He was never my favourite Expo, but even as a very young child just starting to enjoy the sport, I understood that he was special. What a great picture:
He kinda looks like a Cuppage.
Boy I miss those powder blue road unis. And boy, something I saw elsewhere on the Web right now makes me nostalgic for the experience of seeing baseball in Montreal - unlike anywhere else in the bigs (in good and bad ways). Just think about the PA announcer and how even that small detail was completely different: "Le receveur, the catcher, numéro huit, number eight, GARY CARTER!"
I get shivers just thinking about it.
(Edited to add a link to video of his final hit, a game-winner, for the Expos over the Cubs in 1992. If you know baseball at all, if you ever watched an Expos game in your life, watch this clip right now and have some tissues handy...
And one more video link, because inexplicably, I had never seen this Expos tribute video/song by Annakin Slayd until now. Oof. No idea how that happened...
And one final link, again to the New York Times, where longtime Montreal broadcaster Mitch Melnick reflects on what he meant to the Expos and to Montreal.)
In conclusion: losing baseball still hurts and losing such a big part of baseball in Montreal at such a young age sucks.
He kinda looks like a Cuppage.
Boy I miss those powder blue road unis. And boy, something I saw elsewhere on the Web right now makes me nostalgic for the experience of seeing baseball in Montreal - unlike anywhere else in the bigs (in good and bad ways). Just think about the PA announcer and how even that small detail was completely different: "Le receveur, the catcher, numéro huit, number eight, GARY CARTER!"
I get shivers just thinking about it.
(Edited to add a link to video of his final hit, a game-winner, for the Expos over the Cubs in 1992. If you know baseball at all, if you ever watched an Expos game in your life, watch this clip right now and have some tissues handy...
And one more video link, because inexplicably, I had never seen this Expos tribute video/song by Annakin Slayd until now. Oof. No idea how that happened...
And one final link, again to the New York Times, where longtime Montreal broadcaster Mitch Melnick reflects on what he meant to the Expos and to Montreal.)
In conclusion: losing baseball still hurts and losing such a big part of baseball in Montreal at such a young age sucks.