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Today’s entrant had a successful, if brief, career in the late-’70s. Bill Atkinson, a diminutive (5′7″) right-hander out of Chatham, Ontario (hometown of Hall-of-Fame pitcher Ferguson Jenkins), worked in 98 games for the Montreal Expos from 1976 to 1979.
Atkinson made four appearances for Montreal toward the end of the ‘76 season at age 21. The following year, he went 7-2, with 7 saves and a 3.35 ERA (113 ERA+) over 83 1/3 innings. He destroyed right-handers that season (.221/.270/.373) and pitched extremely well at home (45 IP, 2.00 ERA).
In 1978, Atkinson got into just 29 games, …read more

Dave Rouleau at the Biz of Baseball interviews former Montreal Expos broadcaster Jacques Doucet. They cover a lot of ground here.
Doucet on preparing for a game:
My work always began when I woke up, with the newspapers. Before the laptops, everything was done by hands (notes and research), but the information was also hard to get and most of the times restricted to the town in which the team was playing. I bought every magazine I could get my hands on, in order to build a good database on all players. Most people like strategies and stats, but for …read more