Montreal Expos (fictional)

The Montreal Expos (French: Les Expos de Montréal) are a Canadian professional baseball team based in,. Founded in 1969, the Expos were the first Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located outside the United States. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East division. The team plays at Stade Vidéotron in the off-island suburb of.

In 2004, MLB announced the Expos would relocate to for the 2005 season to become the Washington Nationals. After fan protests and threats of legal action from the city of Montreal and the Quebec government, a compromise was reached in late 2004 that allowed the league to establish the Washington Nationals as a new franchise while retaining the contracts of all Expos personnel. The Expos' intellectual property, including team name, logos, and history, were kept in trust by a holding group led by the and cable company, and the franchise was regarded by the MLB as suspended, with a new team to be established by 2010 either by expansion or relocation. The Expos were announced as an expansion team in 2008 and resumed play in 2010.