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INDEPTH: AU REVOIR, EXPOS
By the numbers
CBC Sports Online | Last updated Sept. 29, 2004
120 million
Number of dollars the league's 29 other owners paid to buy the Expos from Jeffrey Loria in 2002.
10 million
Number of dollars paid as an expansion fee to MLB in 1968
57,592
Attendance at 1977 Olympic Stadium inaugural game
28,650
Team-best average attendance per home game (1983)
7,935
Franchise-low average attendance per home game (2001)
4,000
Pete Rose doubled off Philadelphia's Jerry Koosman in a 1984 contest for his 4,000th career hit
1982
Montreal hosts the first All-Star Game outside the U.S.
691
Number of wins by Felipe Alou over 10-year career as Expos manager (1992-2001)
97
Team-record number of bases stolen by outfielder Ron LeFlore in 1980
55
Weight in tons of a concrete beam that smashed onto an Olympic Stadium walkway in 1991
50
Major-league-record number of pitches infielder Ron Hunt was hit by in 1971
36
Number of seasons in Major League Baseball
20
Team-record complete games hurled by Bill Stoneman in 1971
13
Seasons with winning records
10
The only player number retired twice (Rusty Staub and Andre Dawson)
6
Expos to hit for the cycle (Tim Foli, Tim Raines, Rondell White, Brad Wilkerson and Vladimir Guerrero)
1.90
Pedro Martinez's team-record ERA in 1997 en route to becoming the only Expos pitcher to win the N.L. Cy Young Award
1
Number of playoff appearances (1981) and players enshrined as an Expo in the Baseball Hall of Fame (Gary Carter)
.694
Montreal's league-best winning percentage during the 1994 strike-shortened season (74-40 record)
.321
Worst winning percentage in franchise history (52-110 in 1969)
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