Re: Les Expos en Boston?

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 24 Oct 2002 at 15:40, Sean Smyth wrote:

> The New York Daily News reports in today's editions that Major League
> Baseball is considering relocating the Montreal Expos, moving the team to
> Boston on a temporary basis. The team would lease out Fenway Park when the
> Red Sox travel out of town. 

I wonder why the Red Sox would want to lease Fenway Park and help promote their 
competition.  And I wonder how Boston fans could develop fan loyalty for a team that's only 
here "on a temporary basis."

I seem to remember my father once telling me that before the Braves left Boston, they tried 
to make an arrangement to play in Fenway Park and sell Braves Field.  According to my 
father, Fenway was a smaller stadium, but the parking was much better.  In any event, again 
according to my father, Tom Yawkey refused to allow the Braves to play in Fenway Park, 
perhaps hoping the Braves would leave town.

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