Expos Moving to Washington

Some day, Frank Robinson might feel like celebrating baseball's return to Washington. But yesterday was not the time, and this was definitely not the place.

"Any time a franchise moves, it's sad, because you are saying that you failed," said Robinson, a Hall of Fame player who was talking three hours before stepping onto the field at Olympic Stadium to manage the last-ever Montreal Expos home game.

Major League Baseball has owned and operated the Expos for the past three years, and yesterday, it made an announcement that had seemed inevitable for much longer than that: The Expos will leave Montreal after 36 seasons and play the 2005 season at RFK Stadium while a new ballpark and ownership group take shape.

Posted by Ron at September 29, 2004 10:08 PM