Rawlings Official Serie De Los Expos de Montreal Puerto Rico
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The pictures depict a brand new balls with a couple of minor blemishes. First the printing on the label is a little weak in places. There is a spot on the panel left of the label and one very minor dot under the Montreal/Puerto Rican flags logo. Here are the highlights of the reason for the ball as taken from Wikipedia. Although their attendance increased from 7,935 per game in 2001 to 10,031 in 2002, MLB decided that the Expos would play 22 of their home games at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2003. Despite being a considerably smaller facility (it seats approximately 19,000) than Montreal's Olympic Stadium , attendance in San Juan's Hiram Bithorn Stadium averaged 14,222, compared with 12,081 in Montreal. The Puerto Rican baseball fans embraced "Los Expos" (particularly Puerto Rican players José Vidro , Javier Vázquez and Wil Cordero , and other Latin players like Vladimir Guerrero and Liván Hernández ) as their home team (as well as the Latin players from other teams), all the while hoping the team would make a permanent move to Puerto Rico. Thanks in part to the San Juan games, the Expos were able to draw over a million fans at home in 2003 for the first time since 1997. The Expos' season in Puerto Rico was chronicled in the MLB-produced DVD Boricua Beisbol - Passion of Puerto Rico. Please see the pictures
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