William Shatner narrates new Montreal Expos documentary
MLB Network production focuses on 'unique culture, history and heritage' of Nos Amours
The Montreal Exposare the focusof a new documentarynarrated by William Shatnerthat celebrates the team's legacyas one of best-loved and more unusual teams in Major League baseball.
Producedby the MLB Network Presents,The Colorful Montreal Exposfeatures interviews with former players Warren Cromartie, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Steve Rogers, Cliff Floyd, Pedro Martinez and Rondell White.
The documentary details the rise of the Expos in the late 1960s through the team's glory days in the late1970s andearly1980stotheir fabled yet ill-fated 1994 pennant run.
"It was colourful, it was alive, and people just loved the Expos," former Expos broadcaster Dave Van Horne says in the film.
Van Horne provides context alongsideformer Expos general manager Dave Dombrowski, the team'sFrench-language broadcasterRodger Brulotte, and journalists Michael Farber, Jonah Keri and Mitch Melnick.
The documentary also hears fromMontreal Mayor Denis Coderre, who discussesthe city's renewed interest in seeing major league baseball return to town.
The Colorful Montreal Expos airs Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 9 p.m.