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Originally Posted by Amazin69
Awesome! I'd been trying to find a pic of Fred Whitfield as an Expo (I'm doing a 1959 Cardinals game [yep, The Long Season was the impetus] and in 1960 [my version of] Fred just graduated to Rochester after tearing up Tulsa), so that makes me quite happy. Expos 1969-2004, what's your source for these older B/W pictures, if I might ask?
Born in the province of Quebec in 1954, I discovered baseball in 1962 (Yankees and Elston Howard fan.) In 1969 the Expos played their first game. I followed them from the start until the sad ending in 2004. Six years ago I began purchasing Expos stuff on eBay (cards and magazines mostly). I started a picture collection of every player on the Expos all-time roster. Some help came when I found this magazine published in 1979. It contains a photo and a small resume of every player who played at least a game for the team. If the magazine is complete, it comes with a poster featuring all the players (B/W headshots) to this date.
Unfortunately, this good idea was forgotten after that. So, no special number of this kind for the other decades. I will be able to help a little bit for 1979 and after but some names on Pegasus27 UIN list are also on my want list.
Thanks for the picture. I will place it in my "prospects" file (never played a game but could have...)
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So in working on a 1970 project, I wound up needing Ken Johnson as an Expo, and a number of years ago Merkle, I believe it was, pointed out there were still no known such images. Then I happened across this post. It reminded me that I have a 1982 Expos yearbook which also has a large poster folded inside of all Expo players, coaches and managers through the 1982 season. And there, of course on a crease, was Ken Johnson. It looks like an authentic image.
I don't know whether 1979 poster features this same image or not, but as I could find no evidence of it being posted here previously, here is Ken Johnson as an Expo....