Hall of Famer Jacques Doucet passes away
Born in Montreal in 1940, Jacques Doucet has been calling major league baseball games for more than four decades and many Quebec baseball fans credit him as the reason they fell in love with the sport
Doucet served as a Montreal Expos beat reporter for La Presse from the time the franchise was awarded to the city in 1968 to 1971. He began performing play-by-play for the Expos’ French language radio broadcasts in 1972 and continued for 33 seasons. Along the way, he called virtually every meaningful game in the franchise’s history, including 2016 Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Dennis Martinez’s perfect game on July 28, 1991. For many years, Doucet also broadcast major league playoff and World Series games in French.
“Jacques Doucet was the French voice of the Montreal Expos for over three decades. Along the way, he invented a whole new glossary of baseball terms to help French-speaking fans understand the game and called virtually every meaningful game in Expos’ history. In more recent years, he broadcast Blue Jays games in French and by the time he retired in 2022, he had called more than 5,500 big league games. Jacques was also a strong supporter of baseball at the grassroots level in Quebec. He had a tremendous impact on the sport in our country and he will be deeply missed. We would like to offer our condolences to his family and friends.”
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