MONTREAL — Louis-Philippe Guy wasn’t always a Toronto Blue Jays fan.
As a young boy, his family would drive six hours south from his hometown of Chicoutimi, Que., to see the Montreal Expos play at the Olympic Stadium.
Now, 21 years after the Expos moved to Washington, D.C., the minor baseball coach from Montreal’s South Shore and Blue Jays lover drives for hours to see the team play in Toronto and other Major League Baseball cities, and says his kids love the tradition just as much as he did growing up.
“I had to mourn for 10 years after the Expos left,” Guy, 41, said. But when Quebecer Russell Martin started playing for Toronto in 2015, “I adopted the Blue Jays.”
With the Jays set to play against the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the American League Division Series this Saturday, Guy