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Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos

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Keri, Jonah

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This came just a few days after Jean Drapeau convinced Warren Giles and the National League to take a leap of faith on Montreal, and on Jarry Park. It also gave the newborn organization exactly eight months to get ready to play. They’d have six months to hire an office staff, hire a manager and coaches, build a scouting department, and get everything set for spring training. Oh, and they’d need actual players to fill an actual roster.
This was an ambitious timeline. No, wait. Not ambitious. Completely insane.
McHale was the man charged with overseeing this seemingly impossible set of tasks. Born and raised in Detroit, McHale signed with the Tigers as a first baseman in 1941. He made his big-league debut two years later, at age 21, but didn’t last long in the majors, appearing in only 64 games thinly spread over five seasons. His playing days over, he stayed in baseball, eventually seizing the role of Detroit’s director of minor league operations. At 35, he was running the Tigers as general manager.

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