I feel like I have a personal connection to the now-defunct Montreal Expos. I supervise tours at Wrigley Field for my day job, and not a week goes by that I don’t see someone sporting the stylized red E and blue B that form the team’s larger M logo. Each person who wears that logo is still heartbroken about the team that was ripped away from their city. I often assure them that one day baseball will return to Montreal while asking myself: Why did Major League Baseball abandon them? Jean-François Poisson’s Netflix documentary “Who Killed the Montreal Expos?”, which world premiered at Festival Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, is a poignant and righteously angry film that attempts to answer that question.
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