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Before Trump Sought to Annex Canada, Washington Took the Expos

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The Montreal Expos became America ’s 29th baseball team, moving to Washington , D.C. , to become the Nationals in 2005 .

In Trump 's dream world, Toronto would be a U.S. city and big-league baseball would once again be an all- American enterprise, as it had been until the Expos in 1969 .

The 1990s started out as a potential golden age of Canadian baseball, with the Blue Jays winning back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993 .

The 94 Expos featured a young Pedro Martinez in the starting rotation and star outfielders Moises Alou and Larry Walker .

But the league’s players went on strike in mid-August ; Major League Baseball wound up ending the season and canceling the World Series .