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1979 ROSTER

 

 

Manager

 

23

Dick Williams

 

 

Coaches

 

16

Felipe Alou

 

2

Jim Brewer

 

39

Pat Mullin

 

9

Vern Rapp

 

40

Norm Sherry

 

1

Ozzie Virgil

 

 

Pitchers

 

42

Bill Atkinson

 

22

Stan Bahnsen

 

35

Woodie Fryman

 

48

Ross Grimsley

 

34

Bill Gullickson

 

20

Bob James

 

37

Bill Lee

 

43

Rudy May

 

29

Dale Murray

 

46

David Palmer

 

45

Steve Rogers

 

21

Scott Sanderson

 

36

Dan Schatzeder

 

27

Elias Sosa

 

 

Catchers

 

8

Gary Carter

 

5

Duffy Dyer

 

47

John Tamargo

 

 

Infielders

 

41

Randy Bass

 

7

Tony Bernazard

 

30

Dave Cash

 

14

Tom Hutton

 

31

Ken Macha

 

12

Jim Mason

 

15

Larry Parrish

 

24

Tony Perez

 

19

Rodney Scott

 

25

Tony Solaita

 

4

Chris Speier

 

6

Rusty Staub

 

 

Outfielders

 

49

Warren Cromartie

 

10

Andre Dawson

 

17

Ellis Valentine

 

18

Jerry White

 

 

Other Positions

 

32

Tim Raines *

 

*

Only baserunning appearances.






Franchise: Washington Nationals / BR 1979 Team Page

Record: 95-65, Finished 2nd in NL Eastern Division (1979 NL)

Managed by Dick Williams

Coaches: Felipe Alou, Jim Brewer, Pat Mullin, Vern Rapp, Norm Sherry and Ozzie
Virgil

Ballpark: Stade Olympique


ACHIEVEMENTS[EDIT]

 * All-Stars: Gary Carter, Larry Parrish and Steve Rogers
 * Player of the Year: Larry Parrish
 * Best Rookie: David Palmer
 * Players of the month:
   * April - Andre Dawson
   * May - Steve Rogers
   * June - Larry Parrish
   * July - Rudy May
   * August - Larry Parrish
   * September - Larry Parrish
 * Minor League Player of the Year: Randy Bass (Denver AAA)
 * Minor League Pitcher of the Year: Rick Ramos (West Palm Beach A and Memphis
   AA)


SEASON HIGHLIGHTS[EDIT]

The 1979 Montreal Expos became very good very quickly. Coming off ten
consecutive seasons with a record below .500, they suddenly emerged as one of
the powers of the National League early in the season, a position they would not
relinquish until early in the 1984 season. There had been signs that the team
was moving in the right direction under the tutelage of Manager Dick Williams as
they had moved from one of the bottom-dwellers of the league to reach 4th place
in 1978 and had developed a potent if inconsistent offense in two years. They
were now ready to take the final steps toward contention.

1979 was also the year when the Expos marketing department, under the guidance
of Roger D. Landry, had two brilliant ideas. After the San Diego Chicken had
taken baseball by storm in 1977, the Expos had introduced their own mascot in
1978, but the kindest words that can be said about Suki, a hominid with a
baseball-shaped head and two antennas sticking out, was that he was inoffensive
even if he did scare a lot of children. In the off-season, Landry turned to Jim
Henson, the creator of the Muppets to design a friendlier mascot. His company
came up with Youppi! a furry orange bear-like creature wearing uniform number !;
he was an instant and unqualified success with the fans. The second stroke of
genius was a publicity campaign centered around the slogan Le fun est dans
l'stade, a slangish way of saying that enjoyment could be found at the ballpark.
Aside from the baseball game, a visit to Stade Olympique included things live
music bands and a beer garden in the inner concourse, children's games, a wider
choice of concession stands than was the norm in those days, and an active and
enthusiastic organist, Fernand Lapierre, whose sound was more reminiscent of a
hockey arena than of a typical 1970s baseball stadium. Lapierre became famous
for playing the march The Happy Wanderer (Valderi, Valdera) when the Expos had
completed a successful rally, with all the fans joining in by singing at the top
of their lungs.

All of these moves served to pump some life into the drab concrete bowl that was
Stade Olympique. Combined with the team's newfound success on the field, this
conspired to drive attendance over two million for the first time in team
history, including a record 59,282 for a doubleheader against the St. Louis
Cardinals on September 16th, which was 22 persons more than the previous record,
set on July 27th during a doubleheader with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The
two-million mark would be reached again in three of the next four years, the
exception being the strike-shortened 1981 season. At that point, Montreal was
considered one of Major League Baseball's most successful franchises, easily
outdrawing teams in much larger cities. Not only were the Expos drawing a lot of
fans at home, they were also nearly unbeatable in their house. Their 28-7 record
over their first 35 home games was the best of any team in the divisional era,
which started in 1969, only matched by the 2015 St. Louis Cardinals.

The Expos had replaced General Manager Charlie Fox with John McHale after the
1978 season, after Fox had clashed with various members of the organization,
most notably All-Star pitcher Steve Rogers. McHale did not attack the trade
market as aggressively as his predecessor had, but he did pull one major coup
when he wrested left-handed pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee from the Boston Red Sox
for generic utility infielder Stan Papi. The eccentric Californian became a fan
favorite in Montreal, and his knack for drawing press attention, first by
stating during spring training that he was in favor of marijuana and in fact had
eaten it on his pancakes, earning a fine from Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, then by
being hit by a taxicab while taking a midnight jog in Los Angeles, CA, and
finally by sporting a huge beard more fitting for a biblical patriarch than for
a baseball player. All the media attention kept the press off the younger
players, while Lee's outstanding performance on the mound, with team-leading
16-10 record and a 3.04 ERA in 222 innings meant that his antics were accepted
with a shrug.

Bill Lee led an outstanding pitching staff that was remarkable for a number of
reasons: first, it included five right-handers and five left-handers, an
extremely rare occurrence in major league history; second, none of the ten
pitchers that started the year on the staff missed any time all year; and
finally, the Expos got probably the best performance from the last three members
of their staff - fifth starter Dan Schatzeder, and long relievers Rudy May and
David Palmer - that any team has ever received. The three were a combined 30-10,
with ERAs of 2.83, 2.30 and 2.63 respectively in a combined 379 innings. The
three vultured some wins away from Steve Rogers, who was 13-12 in spite of
pitching 5 shutouts and posting an ERA of 3.00 over 249 innings. Starter Scott
Sanderson, with only two months of major league experience behind him, went 9-8
with a solid 3.43 ERA before tiring towards the end of the season, at which
point rookie Palmer stepped in the rotation and was outstanding. The only real
disappointment was Ross Grimsley who couldn't reproduce his heroics of the
previous year, when he was the only Expo pitcher ever to win 20 games, and ended
the year deep in Manager Williams' doghouse with a 10-9 record and a horrendous
5.36 ERA. The bullpen was very solid, with free agent Elias Sosa stepping into
the closer role with aplomb, recording 18 saves with a 1.95 ERA, and support
from two veterans, left-hander Woodie Fryman, who saved 10 games with a 2.79 ERA
and right-hander Stan Bahnsen who was 3-1, 3.16 in 94 innings as a middle
reliever. The Expos repatriated their former bullpen ace Dale Murray from the
New York Mets for the stretch drive, and he posted a 2.77 ERA in 13 innings,
while Bill Atkinson, called up from AAA Denver also helped out with a 2-0 record
and a 1.93 ERA over 14 September innings.

The Expos' offense was led by third baseman Larry Parrish, who had a career year
and won the team's Player of the Year award, with a .307 batting average, a then
team-record .551 slugging percentage, with 39 doubles, 30 home runs, 80 runs
scored and 82 RBI. Catcher Gary Carter hit .283 with 22 home runs and 75 RBI,
center fielder Andre Dawson hit .275 with 25 home runs, 90 runs scored and 92
RBI, right fielder Ellis Valentine hit .276 with 21 home runs and 82 RBI, while
first baseman Tony Perez and left fielder Warren Cromartie also posted good
numbers. In the infield, Williams made the surprise decision in spring training
to replace second baseman Dave Cash with newcomer Rodney Scott. Scott was a
controversial player because, on one hand, his Triple Crown line of a .238
batting average with 3 home runs and 42 RBI was pretty unimpressive, but on the
other Williams insisted that he was one of the most valuable players on the team
given his stellar defense, his ability to take pitches and draw walks in the
second slot of the batting order, and his outstanding speed. Indeed, 1979 was
the first year that the Expos' character as one of the premier running teams in
baseball was set, with Scott's 39 stolen bases just ahead of Dawson's 35; this
would last until 1994 and the departure of the last of a series of great base
stealers, Marquis Grissom.

In 1978, the Expos' bench had been a huge weakness, but that changed
dramatically in 1979. Under the leadership of pinch hitter Tom Hutton, the group
of unheralded substitutes organized themselves into the Bus Squad, with Bus
supposedly standing for "broke, underrated superstars", taking pride in their
limited but effective contributions to the team's success. The group included
catcher Duffy Dyer, third baseman Ken Macha, shortstop Jim Mason, first baseman
Tony Solaita and outfielder Jerry White, with third-string catcher John Tamargo
being added when he joined the team in August. Dave Cash did not join the group,
as he had trouble accepting losing his job, but proceeded to hit a solid .321 in
limited playing time. In July, the team dumped Solaita, who had been a
productive hitter, in order to bring back the team's first superstar, Rusty
Staub, who had been the Detroit Tigers' designated hitter the past three and a
half seasons. Staub had become a liability in the field, but his return was a
huge hit with the fans, and he could still hit, posting a .267 average with 3
home runs in 38 games.

The pennant race with the Pittsburgh Pirates was epic. The Expos started the
year red hot, with 15 wins over their first 20 games and were 15 games over .500
at the All-Star break, but they couldn't shake off the Pirates. Worst, they had
lost a lot of games to rainouts, and were facing a grueling schedule in
September, with nine doubleheaders on the program. They were trailing the
Pirates by three games on September 1st and the young team was expected to fade
down the stretch, but they held on, posting a superb 23-11 record that month,
including a sweep of three consecutive doubleheaders against the New York Mets.
After splitting a doubleheader with the Pirates on September 24th, they found
themselves half a game ahead of their rivals, but they had lost Carter to an
ankle injury in the second game and would lose four of their final five games
without the future Hall of Famer in the line-up. On September 29th (Boxscore),
19-year-old pinch-runner Tim Raines scored a run in the bottom of the 9th on a
pinch-hit single by Cash to earn a 3-2 victory against the Philadelphia
Phillies. The Expos' players waited anxiously for the results of the Pirates'
game gainst the Chicago Cubs; when Mick Kelleher scored an unearned run in the
top of the 13th inning to give the Cubs a 7-6 victory (Boxscore), the Expos were
still alive, one game behind the Pirates, who had one more to play, while the
Expos had one remaining home game and could go to Atlanta, GA for a make-up
doubleheader against the Atlanta Braves if necessary. Unfortunately, the Pirates
won their final game while the Expos lost theirs when Steve Carlton pitched a
three-hit shutout (Boxscore) and the season was over without a need to travel
south. A huge disappointment, but what a great year it had been !


FURTHER READING[EDIT]

 * Gary Belleville: "July 27, 1979: Bucs spoil Rusty Staub’s return to
   Montreal," SABR Baseball Games Project.
 * Gary Belleville: "September 16, 1979: Dave Cash hits walk-off grand slam for
   Expos," SABR Baseball Games Project.
 * "Bus Squad" in Montreal Expos: La Revue Baseball, Vol. 11, No. 4 (July 1979),
   pp. 5,7,42.
 * Norm King: "How 'Bout Them Expos; May 29-31, 1979: Montreal Expos 9,
   Philadelphia Phillies 0; Montreal Expos 2, Philadelphia Phillies 0; Montreal
   Expos 1, Philadelphia Phillies 0 At Olympic Stadium", in Norm King, ed.: Au
   jeu/Play Ball: The 50 Greatest Games in the History of the Montreal Expos,
   SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016, pp. 42-44. ISBN 978-1-943816-15-6
 * Norm King: "Back-to-Back-to-Back Jacks; June 17, 1979: Montreal Expos 19,
   Houston Astros 3 At Olympic Stadium", in Norm King, ed.: Au jeu/Play Ball:
   The 50 Greatest Games in the History of the Montreal Expos, SABR, Phoenix,
   AZ, 2016, pp. 45-47. ISBN 978-1-943816-15-6
 * Norm King: 1979: The Expos First, Great Season, Scoop Press, Toronto, 2021.
   ISBN 9781-777-413-224
 * Rod Mickleburgh: "Expos Regain First Place from Pirates; September 24, 1979:
   Montreal Expos 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 6 At Three Rivers Stadium", in Norm
   King, ed.: Au jeu/Play Ball: The 50 Greatest Games in the History of the
   Montreal Expos, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016, pp. 48-50. ISBN 978-1-943816-15-6
 * Brodie Snyder: The Year the Expos Almost Won the Pennant, Virgo Press,
   Toronto, ON, 1979.




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