Danny do you I'm sure you do remember the 22
inning Exposed Dodgers game August 23rd 1989
which was at the time maybe without precedent
scoreless until the 22nd inning It was unbelievable.
I was there in the press box and sitting through
it started on the 23rd and ended on the 25th
So you can believe what going on more than two
full games and nobody scored. And there was a
lot of interesting things that went on. Larry
Walker in right field made what you call a phantom
catch of a ball that appeared to Grinder's club,
but he actually trapped it. But the umpires called
it out. Larry Walker was also nailed for leaving
third base on a sacrifice fly by Mike Fitzgerald.
And they called him out. But Walker says he didn't
leave early. There was something going on between
him and some of the umpire. But he'd only been
in the major leagues for a few games. And all
of a sudden he was causing problems with the
umpire. But you know, Dennis Martinez, the starting
pitcher, came into Since the 22nd inning and
Rick Dempsey headed out there his former teammate
in Baltimore so Very few relief performances
ever by Dennis Martinez. I need what wasn't exactly
too happy, but Boy, that was a long game for
sure Yeah, I'm looking at the box score John
wetland for the Dodgers eventually comes over
to the Expos gets the win It's wild looking at
these box scores. The Dodgers use only five pitchers.
It would be unheard of in today's game. Seven
innings for Hersheiser. Seven scoreless innings.
Two for Jay Howell. Alejandro Pena. Four scoreless.
Tim Cruz. Three scoreless. Six scoreless for
Wetland. Just insanity. Pascual Perez starts
the game. Do you have any memories of Pascual
Perez? He was called Francine Pasquale Perez
because he loved to scoot around the field. He
did not walk onto the field. He ran onto the
pictured mound. And when the inning was over,
he was running into the dugout. And then he would
pull some tricks like pretending to throw the
ball underneath his legs to second base to pick
off the runner. He's pulling funny little tricks
like that too. And he would... had this pitch.
It was a really slow, up -and -ear pitch. I guess
they call it the office pitch, E -U -P -H -U
-S or something. But he was a real showman. He
was really a character, and the media loved him.
The fans loved him. Management loved him. You
know, when he went to the Yankees in 1989 as
a free agent, three years for $5 .7 million,
The Expos offered him three for like maybe four
and a half. Dave Dombraski was in tears when
I talked to him when he signed with the Yankees
because the Expos looked after him. He had a
drug problem. They had taken him to meetings
for, I guess AA meetings or rehab meetings in
Montreal to help him out. They really cared for
Pasquale Byrds. And when he went to the Yankees,
He got back into his own drug problems and he
had to be able to play pitch in the major GM.
So he was always a favorite of mine and the media
and the fans and the management. You know, unfortunately,
he got killed a number of years ago. Well, talking
about reclamation projects, my favorite player
is a tie between Rusty and Dennis Martinez. So
because in 88, I got to know Dennis Martinez.
And since then, we've talked maybe two or three
times a year. He gave me a good scoop one time
in the dugout before a game. In the Expo dugout,
he was the only player in the Expo dugout while
everybody was out doing BP and stretching. So
I decided I'm going over to the doctor. He tells
me that he signed a two -year contract extension.
Nobody had it the next day. It's just unbelievable.
Gave me a great scoop. Wow. Yeah. And, you know,
he made a great recovery from his alcohol problem
with the X -Force. And he, uh, voted in the Canadian
Baseball Hall of Fame. He had 245 wins. He's
not quite good enough stats for Cooper's time,
but pretty good picture for the X -Force. And
speaking of Dandy Cat, do you think with the
The budget limitations, I think even that 94
team, they were next to last in payroll and were
able to put that product out there. Do you think
that Dan Duquette, you know, he's not trying
to get a bunch of ragtag guys, but like you said,
some guys that have some drug or alcohol problems
and he's just got to weigh it and say, I think
we can do something here. This is not. This guy's
not a total mess and I don't have a lot of money
like the Yankees or the Dodgers do so we're just
gonna take take a flyer on some guys and and
we think we can make it work with some others
and just I almost feel like there's you get some
of those guys together that are not Attractive
to some of those other clubs with money and all
of a sudden you've got a lively clubhouse You've
got a group of guys that they've got some life
experiences that they can relate and then the
chemistry starts to form. Was that part of it,
you think, with Duquette and how he had to assemble
the roster? Yeah, there was a number. Dan and
Dave Dombaski, I guess, and even Mo Cook. Tim
Burke was a believer in the Mets system and had
alcohol problems. And they decided to trade for
him. I'm not too sure who that gave up for him,
but he turned out to be a great movie pitcher
until 1991 and he started to fade. And he made
him with the Yankees, but he was traded to the
Mets for Ron Dullin. And then, you know, Ron
Dullin didn't last very long with the Expos.
But you see, Oral Tan Boyd was another guy that
the Expos brought in to replace Pasquale Perez.
So they got another showman in return of Pasquale.
But oil tatters are showing in himself, the colorful
water running out of the field and punching the
air and so on. And he told me a funny story.
Every time he'd come in after a picture, he would
grin to the hallway side to dug out and smoke
cigarettes. But he wouldn't know what was going
on in the field. He would be concentrated on
the scabs. But he was really, by the quote, So
I interviewed him for a book a couple of years
ago. But you're right that the expo knew that
they didn't have a lot of money to spend on these
guys, but they wanted to take a flyer on them,
as you say. And in most cases, they turned out
pretty good, especially Dennis Martinez. That
lasted, what, seven and a half years? I was going
to ask for maybe some some thoughts on Philippe
Alou. I love what you said. I couldn't agree
more. He should have been a manager long before
1992. It's, I mean, I want to say inexcusable
when you kind of look, if you just kind of Google
1988 managers in Major League Baseball, 89 or
maybe even 1990, and it's a lot of accomplished
names, some future Hall of Famers, but a lot
of guys that look like you and me. and I don't
know what Philippe had not proven by the end
of the 90s or by the middle of the 80s that didn't
warrant giving him a shot, but I love what you
say there that he had the bonafides and we just,
I think as a society, just took us a little too
long to put guys like him in the driver's seat.
Yeah, for sure. After the 1982 season when Jim
Fanning you know, Manning sat here after Blue
Monday in 1981, they brought in Bill Burden,
but that's when they sort of hired Felipe Alou.
And when Bill Burden was done after two years,
they brought in Buck Rogers. Buck Rogers turned
out to be a pretty good manager. But on the second
attempt, instead of Buck, they probably should
have hired Felipe. But they, I've written about
it, the Expos, they, maybe didn't want to give
colored people a chance as a manager. Charles
Brompton and John McHale and Jim Fanning all,
you know, kind of like part of the white establishment.
But it took far too long for Felipe to be brought
in as manager. And, you know, in 90, after the
buck was fired, that's when Dave Van Brotty should
have hired Felipe there, but then he hired Tom
Reynolds. But finally he got his chance. But
if Felipe had been brought in in the 80s, probably
he would have maybe guided those guys to some
championships. And, you know, maybe he would
be a manager elected into Cooperstown, but he
didn't have enough wins to get into Cooperstown.
But he was certainly a great manager. Yeah, some
of the names from 92. And these are, like I said,
future current Hall of Famers. Sparky Anderson.
Bobby Cox, Roger Craig, Jim Fregrosi, Phil Garner,
Mike Hargrove, Butch Hobson, Art Howell, Tom
Kelly, Gene Lamont, Tony LaRusso, but it's only
Felipe Alou and Cito Gaston, the two Canadian
franchise managers that are of color. Unless
I'm missing, or Hal McRae, I'm sorry, Kansas
City Royals. I meant to mention this earlier,
but the the chapter on, do you say Moisealu or
Moises? I've heard it said both ways. Moises.
Moisesalu and pre -arb players. You really go
into some great detail about the situation that
he ran into there in I believe it was 92, 93?
Yeah, he was upset and the agent Bob Lamont because
they were only going to offer him, I think originally,
but I think about 290 in his third year when
he was not eligible for arbitration. He was a
pre -op guy. And pre -op guys don't, they just
have to accept what the team is gonna give it
to them. So I wrote the story in the Globe and
Mail with Bob Lamont. And Bob Lamont is one of
the few times he's ever blown off steam to a
reporter about any whether... football or baseball.
So I got a big scoop in the global mail that
day. And then the media followed up on it in
Montreal. And then when he got to spring training,
he showed up several days late. And he arranged
to meet with Bill Storm and Stoney decided to
give him a necklace. They brought it up to, I
think, gave him a 25 ,000 extra, bring him up
to 315. But it's funny that year, the Blue Jays
and I've written about that before, the pre -op
guys, Sean Green, Paolo Delgado, and Alex Gonzalez,
they were going into their same year, and the
Blue Jays gave all three of them $500 ,000, but
they only wanted to give Moises and anybody else
who came along $315 ,000. That was the plateau,
and that was it. They weren't gonna move on.
And most teams... never would do what the Blue
Jays did. 500 ,000, that was quite a nice chunk
of money for players going into their third year.
And I wrote that story in the Globe and Mail
about those three guys. And then I said, I said
something in the story, I said they should be
happy that they got 500 ,000. I heard it from
my Scuttlebutt that the guy didn't like what
I wrote. But the Blue Jays, I've treated the
Blue Eyed guys pretty good over here. And now
the minimum wage is what? I think it's $760.
So now they don't necessarily go too high for
most of those guys. But anyway, you know, the
Expos had a small payroll, so they had to cut
costs anyway possible. Now Danny, you've called
Toronto home for the past 25 or so years. Do
you still do you get out to Blue Jays games?
Do you still like to go to Major League ballparks?
Well, I go maybe two or three times a year, you
know, watch them a lot on TV and follow them.
Like I tell people, I've been covered, excuse
me, following the Blue Jays since 1977 when they
came into being in the American League. And then
there's a lot of these people in Hawaii. I'm
an expose guy. So some of them like to pick on
me and say, oh no, you're coming following the
wrong team. But Canada's two major league ball
teams, so started following the Expos in 69 and
then the Blue Jays in 77. So the Blue Jays are
still a team I follow. A couple other tidbits
here. I'd love to continue talking for another
hour. This has just been fascinating, Danny,
and hopefully we can do it again in the future.
Wanted to point out to you Jeff Fisero. I live
near Pensacola, Florida and about ten years ago
2014 -15 He was the pitching coach for the double
a Pensacola Blue Wahoos Which at that time I
believe we were a Cincinnati Reds affiliate.
So I remember seeing Fisero on the field there
were there some guys that Maybe took some time
to warm up to you to give you a quote after a
game Some guys that were a little standoffish
that you couldn't Figure out how to approach
them and then as the season wore on or maybe
a couple of seasons They you know were very eager
to speak with you or comfortable talking with
you. I would say as far as Acquiring interviews
for all the different books Some of them didn't
want to talk. I think I can say the majority
but talk a few of them. I needed intermediaries
uh like an agent or a scout for the team and
they went to that person said okay Danny would
like to talk to you whereas on my own they had
not shown any interest in uh talking to me but
um like Ken Phelps he in 1980 we played in 1982
and didn't play much he asked to be traded he
traded to Seattle and uh I wanted to talk to
him because he was mentioned on Seinfeld. You
know, he got traded to buy somehow and the Yankees
were involved. And anyway, somebody gave me information
that he lived in Phoenix or something. So I wrote
a post letter. One of my strategies, Dan, and
when I'm trying to contact people, I can't get
ahold of my text, email. a phone call, it's right
then post a letter by slow mo, slow mail. Oh,
yeah. So he answered me, he called up one time,
he said, it's Ken Phelps. Oh, shoot, I was really
happy. So I talked about him in one of my chapters
a couple of, a couple of years ago. So he talked
about his time at the Expo, which wasn't very
long. And then he talked about the thrill of
getting mentioned on Seinfeld with Who's that
player? And the other player, I forget. But he,
see, the other player, Bill Stoneman was general
manager in 88, going back to 88 or 89, Jay Bruna
from the Yankee. Stoneman wanted Jay Bruna from
the Yankee for a trade. And he's willing to trade,
oh, I forget. But Buck Rogers talked Stoney out
of the trade because Buck told Stoney he wanted
Dave Martinez, that little outfielder with the
Cubs. And so they traded, and the Yankees moved
on and talked to other people and traded him,
J. Bernard, to Seattle. And Stoneman traded Mitch
Webster, who had a few good years and then was
fading, traded him to the Cubs for Dave Martinez.
But Jay Brunner went on and had a number of big
years with the Murners. You know, Dave Martinez,
I mentioned this before, it's one of those affairs
that I mentioned from time to time in my books.
He was traded from the Cubs to the Expos because
Ryan Sandberg found out Dave Martinez was fooling
around with his wife. So he went to Jim Fry.
Sandberg went to Jim Fry and said, look, do you
trade me or trade Martinez? Of course, they're
not going to trade Martinez. They're not going
to trade Sandberg. He's the best player, maybe.
So they traded Martinez. I think I remember hearing
that story. But as far as players, when I was
playing, I can generally say that a lot of them
were pretty good cooperatives. Would you ever
have guys Talk to you a little bit off the record.
You're just sitting and all of a sudden now you're
just hanging out and what they ever Say things
to you without mentioning any names like Describing
some personal problems that they're going through
or hey, I've got a lot on my mind right now sometimes
as fans we see a certain player going through
a slump and we don't know that maybe he's going
through a divorce or has some problem with one
of his kids getting into trouble or just You
know lost a mother a father or things like that.
Did any guys ever open up to you and just say,
hey, look, just don't, obviously don't print
this, but... Yeah, I'm trying to think of guys
who fit into that question. I asked a guy I know
now, Jimmy Carl, for the next book. He was like
passed over by the Expos for a few years in the
minority. And then in 2002, he got his chance
to... play with that team when they were first
owned by Major League Baseball. So he's a guy
who I had to get his agent to get him to talk
to me, because I made a phone call to him several
years ago. And so his mother died while he was
playing, not for the Expos, but for somebody
else. So he told me about that. And her favorite
color was purple. and he was traded to the Rockies,
which their favorite color is purple. Oh, wow.
So he told me a number of different stories that
he was like, yeah, he was just a part time player,
one of these guys that not a star player. And
I love that kind of a story. So I do that story
talking about him growing up. That's how I like
to do talk about the player when they're growing
up as well, not just in Major League. but in
the minor league, a tight or whatever. And Jamie
Carl ended up with more than 10 years of Major
League service, good for a full pension. Just
a part -time player, playing for a number of
teams, just a hell of a guy. And he appreciated
me writing about him. He said, I think it gives
me, I'm very humbled that you're writing about
me. Now that's so rewarding and I love that you
take an interest in those types of players and
Help to humanize them because they are part of
the narrative of the Montreal Expos Especially
now I don't know that you know fans are with
social media Some fans can be really really hard
on players Not that players aren't used to getting
heckled but the death threats and the just awful
things that they say and post social media they
just see these guys as commodities but they're
human beings with wives and families and I don't
even think when we hear that a guy hits the IL
for 10 days or 60 days that we really care about
the injury or what this is gonna what repercussions
this has for his life for the next three months
because it could be a really depressing period
for an athlete You're in the middle of a playoff
chase and now all of a sudden you're sitting
on your sofa with your dog running around and
just flipping through the channels. I don't think
people really think about stuff like that, but
you do a great job and go into fascinating detail
on some of these players that I don't think you're
going to get from any other source or many other
sources. So thank you for that. I appreciate
that going into detail, as you say, getting inside
insider quotes and fascinating information that
would be appealing to readers. So that's really
what it is to, you know, to say humanizing these
players, even the star players, you know, like
humanizing them too and talking about their lives.
You know, Tim Wallach in 1989, 1991, 92, I wrote
a fair amount of him that he was disappointed
in the contract talks and he was getting less
money than Andres Galarraga and Tim Booker. They
were making more money than him. And there was
more of the agent that was telling me all this
stuff. And Tim pulled me aside one game of Montreal
is that, you know, look at Danny, you're going
to talk about this. Talk to me. Don't talk to
my agent. So, Tim, you know, he's a really quiet,
intense, passionate player. Hard to say, I can't
say that Tim is somebody that really admires
me, but I've always admired him for the way he
played. Solid third baseman and pretty good hitter
for all those years. He has been kind of even
after all these down on me because of all of
this stuff and he he Bunch of those guys in the
club house hated Dennis Martina because he's
always mouthing off the media and and the guys
in the left -hand corner like I call them Tom
Foley and Dennis Martinez They hate me when I
go and talk to Dennis Martinez You had a really
really good perspective when you're around these
guys all the time, you know who gets along with
who and when there's nine guys on the field,
you know that this guy hates this guy's guts,
but they're on the same team and they gotta focus
on getting the next out. But you were probably
acutely aware of when the shortstop and the center
fielder are not on speaking terms. And when Dennis
Martinez pitched his no -hitter perfect game
to July the 20th, 1991, one of the first guys
to hug him is Tim Wallach. Even though they didn't
get along, it had been acknowledged in the media
that they didn't ever get along because Wallach
didn't like Martinez spouting off. Sometimes
he'd criticize the hitters. If they had no offense,
he'd criticize the hitters. And of course, Wallach
and those guys didn't like that. But in that
moment, Tim Wallach hugged Dennis Martinez That
baseball will do that Finally I know I was saying
probably 20 minutes ago got a wrap up but uh,
I like the way that this book is written and
I've I've got some catching up to do on the other
on the other titles, but Danny you really have
some fun with these chapters But what I wanted
to call out was and I laughed out loud The chapter
is called Olympic Stadium Bullshit. It's exactly
what it is. That right away just told me, I'm
two pages in, I'm looking at the table of contents
before I start reading. I think, okay, this is
going to be a fun book. Yeah. So the Olympic
Stadium has been a fiasco since it came into
being in 1976, especially with the roof, a lot
of times would never work. So a lot of times
you just kept it permanently closed. And now
the ladies ridicule is that they're spending
870 million Canadian to fix up the roof and the
technical ring around the roof. And it's another
joke about the Olympic stadium. So I mentioned
earlier that when they were fixing up the Olympic
stadium with the roof and they reconfigured it
to not have a baseball field as part of the complex.
So that entered into my headline of Olympic Stadium
Bullshit. So, you know, it's been a, what's the
word, a cavernous stadium, wide open. And Rob
Manfred has said that if a new team does come
to Montreal, they have to have a new stadium
in downtown Montreal. But I think there's suddenly
a way that I think they could play in Olympic
Stadium for one or two years while the new stadium
is built, if it ever comes to fruition. But they
might still be able to use Olympic Stadium because
when the Blue Jays were playing there, they brought
it up to Major League Baseball standards with
different types of little renovations. I wrote
this down in around 2000. I guess there was an
architect. that the Expos hired to put together
a rendering of what I guess what they were gonna
call the Bat Park would look like under the Loria
ownership. And this just never came to be for
various reasons. But that was, I guess, a downtown
conceptualized stadium. It looked like they were
trying to go the opposite of what maybe some
of the new ballparks of that time were going
for, more of a concrete and steel look. Yeah,
they, you know, Claude Boucher thought he had
something going in 97, 98, and the lawyer thought
he had something. The Quebec Premier in the day
that Boucher told Bud Selig and Claude Boucher
at a meeting in Montreal or wherever, Quebec
City, that the Quebec government was not prepared
to support funds for a new stadium in Montreal
when they're closing hospitals in Quebec. So
the Quebec Premier, you know, not exactly maybe
a baseball fan per se, but they just didn't get
the job done or it was lawyer, you know, Bourjou.
And people are down on Bourjou because of the
94 situation and not getting the stadium done.
But I've always been in Brochure's corner. Every
book I write, I'm in Brochure's corner, even
though that thing happened in 1994, where you
get rid of those guys. And we have a good relationship,
but I've never liked Jeffrey Loria. But, nah.
Like I said in my post today, when he fired Philip
P. A. Lewis as a tracer, he leaked it to the
New York Times. Jack Curry with the New York
Times at the time and now he's with the US network,
but He wanted to leak the news to the New York
Times because he used to while he still lives
in New York City Gloria, but Hopefully sometime
in the next few years somebody's gonna come along
and maybe you have the funds to on the team.
You never know Well Danny with your again, like
I said earlier with your help and I know there's
a documentary No Amor, the saga of the Montreal
Expos, the memorabilia. Maybe, like you said,
2029 is maybe at least a year that will reveal
some more, give us some prospects of what's realistic.
The No Amor documentary is one thing, and the
annual Expos Fest autograph festival that held
every April since, oh, it's 10 years now. A thousand
people show up, they pay $200 a shot, a lot of
grass, a meal, and free beer and wine. That's
another example of the interest showing in a
new team. And then there's another documentary
coming out sometime in 2025 or 2026 on Netflix,
talking about the Expos again. So you never know
in the next few years that something might happen.
But it's going to take a lot of money, Dan. Well,
Danny, I want to call out some of the titles.
This is not comprehensive because there's a few
more and there's a couple of books that you've
written that are not expos related. But here's
some to check out, folks. I also had this listed,
of course, explosion. We've been talking about
today. Always remembered. New revelations and
old tales about those fabulous expos. Blue Monday.
This is a book that Danny on another episode
said that some of his fans or readers, they just
won't buy this one. It's too depressing for them.
But Blue Monday is the Expos Dodgers and their
home run that changed everything. There is never
forgotten tales about Ron LaFleur, Ron Hunt and
other Expos yarns from 69 to 04. There's bases
loaded. There is ecstasy to agony. There's you
don't forget homers like that. So I urge you
if you're and you can find all these titles on
Amazon or wherever you buy books if you've got
that special baseball fan in your life or you
are that special baseball fan and I emphasize
baseball fan whether or not you follow the Expos
or You just have some nostalgia about baseball
which who doesn't if you're a fan. This is a
great gift idea and a great diversion from whatever
is happening in your life, and you just need
to get your hands on something that's a page
turner and take your mind off of whatever is
stressing you in 2025, which could be anything
really the way that things are happening. But
I see what I'm doing. I'm keeping the exposed
legacy alive. And it's another example of the
enthusiasm I'm trying to create, you know, for
another team. That's what I'm doing. But I'm
creating and writing stories for the benefit
of X -Bowls fans, what when there's no team there.
I'm keeping the legacy alive. They have not a
team for 21 years, but I love writing about the
X -Bowls. It's just, if I think, you know, without
Danny Gallagher and these titles, and you always,
you know, with the consistency here, if you've
been reading, you can be sure another one's probably
coming pretty soon. think it's comforting to
a lot of baseball fans and Montreal Expos fans
that you're out there blowing the horn and again
Thank you as a baseball fan. I've a long time
into the episode now to reveal I'm a Chicago
Cubs fan But I remember in those late or 89 early
90s mid 90s We were National League East division
rivals. I watched a lot of games between the
Cubs and Expos and I really appreciate what you're
doing. Yeah. Thank you so much. It's been a baseball
has been a passion of mine. I grew up playing
baseball, competitive, adult baseball for 27
consecutive years in different parts of Canada,
where I was reporter and then to get on the beat
in 1988, it just electrified my passion for baseball
and the Expos. And thank you so much for having
me on the show. It's been a real blast, Dan,
talking to you and reliving all these memories.
Oh, I love it. I love it, Danny. Trying to think
of a question I haven't asked to wrap us up here,
but how about something that maybe you haven't
been asked? Every ballpark has, you know, hot
dogs and other things on the menu. Was there
anything there at Olympic Stadium that you liked?
Are you a hot dog guy? or what was something
that was if you're going to the concession stand
at Olympic Stadium and somebody like me, you
never went there, never saw a ball game there,
what would you say, hey, you need to try this?
Well, they had, you know, hot dogs, but they
also had poutine, which is famous in Quebec and
Montreal. And then, you know, even before the
game, they had the OOPA band stirring up excitement.
That was one of them. of expose games and Fernand
Lapierre on the organist playing different songs,
you know, take me out to the ball game. And so
there was the food and then there's the ambience
that created a nice atmosphere at the expose
games at Jerry Parker Olympic Stadium. And then
those guys walking around throwing the fruits
were pretty noisy. And let me not forget to make
mention of Yuppie. Exactly. There's another famous
character since 1979, and he got thrown out of
the game in the 22 -D game by Tommy Lasorda.
I was about to say, wasn't it Yuppie that really
got under Lasorda's skin one particular game,
or maybe multiple times? I don't know. the video
on the third day, he goes like this, pointing
to you, but you're out of here. Since then, for
all these years after, before you died, everybody's
all criticizing Tommy Lasorda for doing that.
Yeah. Okay. People are on social media. Where
can they find you? What's the handle for Danny
Gallagher again? Yeah. On Twitter, it's Daniel
Gallagher G -A -N -N -O Gallagher G -A -L -L
-A -G -H -R -7. Daniel Gallagher 7. And on Facebook,
I'm just simply Danny Gallagher. I'm not on Instagram
or anything like that. Real lightning round of
names here, just to throw them out here. Fellow
Dan Expos. Dan Schatzeter, 1977 to 80. Dan Warthen,
1975 and 76. Dan Smith 99 to 0 1 And I've got
a Dan McGinn the inaugural season 69 through
the 72 season Yeah, that's pretty good. I Got
like 10 shots today. You really get to talk if
you ever want to Talk to him. Let me know. Oh,
I was I'm glad you asked cuz I figured I'm I
might ask you for recommendations cuz I've tried
exactly any time that some of these guys No.
Yeah, the ball players that I've been able to
get, it's, it's really difficult for me and my
perch to go through Major League Baseball team
to talk to an active player. But if it's a retired
player, I've found one of my guests on LinkedIn,
found another one, just dug up an email address
online. I have tried the snail mail. I got one.
It was the Kentucky Derby winner. Uh, not a baseball
guy, but uh, the jockey for a Kentucky Derby
winner through snail mail so reading your book
and I can appreciate how resourceful you must
be to get in touch with these guys or anytime
that I can help you with shots his nickname is
shots okay well um it's always been nice for
folks then shots that I text him or talk to him
he's just super I'd love to have him on the show.
I appreciate that Danny Okay. Well folks check
him out if you go on YouTube and if you listen
to other podcasts if you're on Spotify or Apple
You can probably find some of these but Danny
has appeared on the bookshelf conversations.
He's been on judgment calls great Canadian sports
show he's been on Expos hidden stories stay home
with Sabre Society for American baseball research
and good seats still available and probably some
more. But what a treat today. Was really looking
forward to this, Danny, and you did not disappoint.
So I've had such a great time talking with you
today. Yeah, thanks again, Dan. Anytime. It's
just been so much fun today. Wonderful. Well,
folks, that's it for this episode of Dan Time.
Thanks for listening. Tell a friend about it
and follow Danny Gallagher. Hey, get started
with any of these books, but I really like the
explosion here. One thing we didn't talk about
on the back of the book, and we'll just save
this for you, the listener, to learn more about.
But there is, you may not know, a Tom Brady connection
to the Expos. But it's just packed with just
excellent stories for you or your baseball fan
friends. Have a great rest of the week, and let's
see those Spos back in. There's always hope.
Hope springs eternal. So let's see those spose
in action again. May take another 10 or 20 years,
but okay. Thank you, Danny. Take care. Thanks
for being on the show today.