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Jacques Doucet (born on March 8th, 1940, in
Montreal) was for 33 years, from 1972 to 2004, the
legendary French radio play-by-play voice for the
Montreal Expos.

He began his career in 1959 as a translator for
the Canadian Press news agency.  After one year in
1960-1961 as a sports journalist for the
short-lived Nouveau Journal daily, he went to La
Presse in 1962, still as a sports journalist,
where he remained until early 1972.

During a long strike in 1964 at La Presse, he had
a brief first experience in sports broadcasting,
for Montreal Alouettes Canadian football|football
games.

He got the assignment as the Montreal Expos beat
writer for La Presse as soon as the franchise was
awarded to Montreal in 1968, in addition to being
the official scorer for games at Jarry Park.

Sometime in the middle of the Expos' first season
in 1969, he was asked to replace from time to time
Jean-Pierre Roy as colour commentator on the
now-defunct CKLM|CKLM 1570, which held the French
radio broadcast rights, as Roy moved to TV
broadcasts once a week.

In 1972, as CKAC|CKAC 730 became the Expos' new
French radio flagship, Doucet was hired by the
(now-defunct) Télémedia network to do
play-by-play for all Montreal Expos games, in
addition to the All-Star, League Championship and
World Series games and a selection of pre-season
Expos games.

When Télémedia merged with Radiomutuel on
September 30th, 1994, creating the new Radiomédia
network, he became an Expos employee and continued
to do play-by-play but only for Montreal Expos
games, which continued to be aired mostly on CKAC
730 until the end of 2003.  (He was heard for a
few games on CKVL|CKVL 850 (now CINF|CINF 690) in
1995, and on CJMS|CJMS 1040 in 2002 and 2003. 
CHMP-FM|CHMP-FM 98.5 took over as the French radio
flagship in 2004 for the last season of the Expos
in Montreal).

Over his career, Doucet described more than 5,500
Major League Baseball games, including two perfect
games (by Dennis Martinez in 1991 against the Los
Angeles Dodgers and by New York Yankees pitcher
David Cone against the Expos in 1999).

He was introduced in the Quebec Baseball Hall of
Fame in 2002, in the Expos Hall of Fame in 2003
and in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004.

While fans hope he will be recognized by the
Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame via the Ford C.
Frick Award, this has not occurred yet and however
much local baseball fans might think this would be
deserved, there is some pessimism about his
chances, as he worked in a language other than
English, and the Expos have now moved to
Washington, D.C., becoming the Washington
Nationals|Nationals in the process.

Doucet is now retired, and in March 2005 became
the official spokesperson for Encore Baseball
Montreal, an organization initially created to
keep the Expos in Montreal and which is now
focused on promoting baseball in Quebec.