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William Shatner narrates new Montreal Expos documentary

The Colorful Montreal Expos features interviews with former players Warren Cromartie, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Steve Rogers, Cliff Floyd, Pedro Martinez and Rondell White, among others.

MLB Network production focuses on 'unique culture, history and heritage' of Nos Amours

The Montreal Expos franchise moved to Washington D.C. in 2004 and changed their name to the Nationals. (Radio-Canada)

The Montreal Exposare the focusof a new documentarynarrated by William Shatnerthat celebrates the team's legacyas one of best-loved and more unusual teams in Major League baseball.

Producedby the MLB Network Presents,The Colorful Montreal Exposfeatures interviews with former players Warren Cromartie, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Steve Rogers, Cliff Floyd, Pedro Martinez and Rondell White.

Actor William Shatner, a Montreal native, is the narrator of the documentary. (The Associated Press)
"The program focuses on how the unique culture, history and heritage of the Montreal Expos made it one of baseball's most distinctive franchises,"a news release from the MLB Network said.

The documentary details the rise of the Expos in the late 1960s through the team's glory days in the late1970s andearly1980stotheir fabled yet ill-fated 1994 pennant run.

"It was colourful, it was alive, and people just loved the Expos," former Expos broadcaster Dave Van Horne says in the film.

Van Horne provides context alongsideformer Expos general manager Dave Dombrowski, the team'sFrench-language broadcasterRodger Brulotte, and journalists Michael Farber, Jonah Keri and Mitch Melnick.

The documentary also hears fromMontreal Mayor Denis Coderre, who discussesthe city's renewed interest in seeing major league baseball return to town.

The Colorful Montreal Expos airs Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 9 p.m.