1994 The Year Baseball Left Me: A Fan’s Goodbye to the Game He Loved
A Fan's Goodbye to the Game He Loved
What if your favorite team didn't just lose a game-but vanished before your eyes?
1994 - The Year Baseball Quit Me is a haunting, nostalgic memoir that captures the love, betrayal, and quiet heartbreak of a fan who never stopped believing-even when the game walked away. Set against the backdrop of Montreal's multicultural neighborhoods and the rise and fall of the Expos, Gabriel Harroch weaves a deeply personal story of baseball, immigration, and identity.
From a childhood shaped by alleyway stickball and crackling transistor radios, to sneaking into Jarry Park on a dream and watching sidearm heroes on fuzzy TV screens, this is more than a sports book. It's a tribute to a lost team, a lost season, and a city's fragile heartbeat.
In 1994, the Montreal Expos had the best record in baseball. They were young, electric, and poised for glory. But when the players' strike cut the season short, hope vanished overnight. What should have been the team's dream season became a ghost story, one that still echoes for those who loved them.
For Harroch, it wasn't just about baseball. It was about belonging. As an immigrant growing up in C te-des-Neiges, the Expos weren't just a team, they were his passport into Canadian life, his connection to his brother, and the soundtrack to every summer. He wasn't in the lineup, but he was always keeping score.
Told with heart, humor, and a raw sense of place, 1994 - The Year Baseball Quit Me revisits the moments that made a boy fall in love with the game, and the silence that followed when it all went away. You'll meet the radio voices that became family when the world felt foreign. You'll sit in cheap bleachers on quiet Tuesday nights and feel the whole city hold its breath on Blue Monday.
Whether you're a lifelong baseball fan, a lover of Montreal's hidden stories, or someone who knows what it means to be let down by something you thought would last forever, this book will stay with you.
Because sometimes, the things we love the most don't quit all at once. They fade. They vanish. They break your heart-and you keep listening anyway.
A memoir for the fans who remember box scores better than birthdays. For the kids who learned English through play-by-play. For anyone who ever believed their team, their season, their city would get its moment.
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