Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi

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Jonah Keri's new book - Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos - available March 11th.

The definitive history of the Montreal Expos by the definitive Expos fan, the New York Times bestselling sportswriter and Grantland columnist Jonah Keri.
     2014 is the 20th anniversary of the strike that killed baseball in Montreal, and the 10th anniversary of the team's move to Washington, DC. But the memories aren't dead--not by a long shot. The Expos pinwheel cap is still sported by Montrealers, former fans, and by many more in the US and Canada as a fashion item. Expos loyalists are still spotted at Blue Jays games and wherever the Washington Nationals play (often cheering against them). Every year there are rumours that Montreal--as North America's largest market without a baseball team--could host Major League Baseball again.
     There has never been a major English-language book on the entire franchise history. There also hasn't been a sportswriter as uniquely qualified to tell the whole story, and to make it appeal to baseball fans across Canada AND south of the border. Jonah Keri writes the chief baseball column for Grantland, and routinely makes appearances in Canadian media such as The Jeff Blair Show, Prime Time Sports and Off the Record. The author of the New York Times baseball bestseller The Extra 2% (Ballantine/ESPN Books), Keri is one of the new generation of high-profile sports writers equally facile with sabermetrics and traditional baseball reporting. He has interviewed everyone for this book (EVERYONE: including the ownership that allowed the team to be moved), and fans can expect to hear from just about every player and personality from the Expos' unforgettable 35 years in baseball. Up, Up, and Away is already one of the most anticipated sports books of next year.

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

Oh hell yeah

But I'm calling bullcrap on Expos fans booing the Nats.  Apocryphal fantasy by a hack. 

[DPMOmaha]

This Expos fan doesn't boo the Nats. I'm curious to see the book.

[JCA-CrystalCity]

I've never seen an Expo fan at Nats Park just to boo and root for bad results for their old team.  Maybe it is common in Quebec, but those who hate on the Nats don't seem to make the trip down.  Maybe on the road it is different, and maybe when we travel to Toronto, Detroit, or Seattle.

[Mathguy]

Disagree - ask some Baltimore resident who once rooted for the Colts

Oh hell yeah

But I'm calling bullcrap on Expos fans booing the Nats.  Apocryphal fantasy by a hack. 

[PebbleBall]

Youppi's got to be done with college by now, right?

[Mattionals]

Expos fans that boo the Nats are just angry French Canadians.

I never lived in Montreal but have always been an Expos fan so to me, the franchise is the same.  I much prefer the locale of D.C. To the frigid north though.