Tag: Charles Bronfman

Watertown Expos

May 9, 2020

The Watertown Expos were a short-lived South Dakota farm club of the Montreal Expos that competed in the Class A Northern League during the summers of 1970 and 1971. By this time, the venerable Northern League was on its last legs. The circuit fielded just four ball clubs during the summer of 1971. Montreal pulled the plug on its Watertown operation in November 1971 and the rest of the Northern League gave up the ghost a few months later. Professional baseball has never returned to Watertown, South Dakota since the Expos departure in 1971.

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Montreal Concordes CFL

Montreal Concordes

January 14, 2018

In the spring of 1982, the Canadian Football League’s venerable Montreal Alouettes franchise collapsed under a mountain of debt. Seeking a clean slate for new ownership, league officials folded the Alouettes on May 13, 1982 and awarded a new Montreal expansion club to Seagram’s liquor baron and Montreal Expos founder Charles Bronfman the next day. The club embarked on a star-crossed four year voyage under the new name “Concordes”, drawing inspiration from the iconic supersonic transatlantic jets of the era.

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1971 Winnipeg Whips Program

Winnipeg Whips

August 12, 2017

The Winnipeg Whips were an ill-conceived Class AAA farm club of the Montreal Expos that played one-and-a-half seasons in Manitoba in 1970 and 1971. The team arrived in mid-season 1970 when the Montreal Expos grew exasperated with the condition of their International League farm club in Buffalo, New York. Winnipeg never really fit in the International League – their closest opponent was 982 miles away in Louisville, Kentucky. The franchise moved to Virginia after the 1971 season.

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