1969 Montreal Expos season
Major League Baseball season
The 1969 Montreal Expos season was the inaugural season in Major League Baseball for the team. The Expos, as typical for first-year expansion teams, finished in the cellar of the National League East with a 52–110 record, 48 games behind the eventual World Series Champion New York Mets. They did not win any game in extra innings during the year, which also featured a surprise no-hitter in just the ninth regular-season game they ever played. Their home attendance of 1,212,608, an average of 14,970 per game, was good for 7th in the N.L. The franchise would play in Montreal for 36 seasons until 2004 when the team relocated to Washington, D.C. and was rebranded as the Washington Nationals in 2005.
Offseason
Expansion draft
The Montreal Expos participated in the 1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft on October 14, 1968.
Other transactions
October 16, 1968: Don Bosch was purchased by the Expos from the New York Mets.
October 21, 1968: Bob Bailey was purchased by the Expos from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
December 2, 1968: Floyd Wicker was drafted by the Expos from the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1968 rule 5 draft.
January 22, 1969: Donn Clendenon and Jesús Alou were traded by the Expos to the Houston Astros for Rusty Staub.
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