Expos' move marks end of baseball era in French

(--"the ball has eyes!" I remember, & feeling great national pride at making Clark Coolidge watch ten minutes of a game en francais at the Sylvia in 1988...(Duke Snider would call the games in English in that era)


"When Mr. Doucet described infielders moving to serrer les lignes de demarcation in the late innings of a close game, listeners would envision the players hugging the foul lines to guard against an extra-base hit. And if a frappeur de puissance (as sluggers are now known) hit a fleche (an "arrow," or line drive) into the right-center field allee, listeners held their breath to hear whether the coureur (base-runner) would round third base and file vers le marbre (dash toward the "marble," or home plate)."


(merci languagehat)