Tag: Ray Pecor

The Vermont Expos, based in Burlington, were the short-season Class A farm club of the Montreal Expos during the final decade of that Major League club’s existence.  The Expos won their lone New York-Penn League crown during their third season of play in 1996. The Montreal Expos moved to Washington, D.C. after the 2004 season and became the Washington Nationals.  Thanks to a delay in re-branding the ball club, Vermont played one final season under the Expos nickname in 2005.  A contest to re-name the team drew more than 30,000 entries in 2005 and resulted in the club’s new identity as the Vermont Lake Monsters beginning in 2006.