August 11, 1994. The middle date of a trifecta along with October 19, 1981 and September 29, 2004 that are nothing but scars in the hearts of Expos fans everywhere. Perhaps this day twenty years ago was the most wounding off all, because at 34 games over .500 and the best record in baseball, the Expos weren’t eliminated, they were simply denied an opportunity to win a championship that may have saved the franchise due to a strike that managed to do something neither World War could accomplish — cancel the World Series.
No one described what could have been better than best-selling author and lifelong Expos fans Jonah Keri:
...July 10, 1994: The Moment I Knew…that the
