Jacques Doucet
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- Born March 8, 1940 in Montreal, QC, Canada
Jacques Doucet was the play-by-play voice of the Montreal Expos on French radio for almost the team's entire existence. Beginning as a translator for the Canadian Press, Doucet became a sportswriter for Montreal's La Presse daily newspaper, where he worked for ten years before being hired by the Expos. He served as a sometimes official scorer for the Expos while covering the team for La Presse during its first three seasons.
In 1972, Doucet was teamed with color commentator Claude Raymond. The pair worked together for twenty seasons on radio broadcasts. He later worked in the radio booth with Pierre Arsenault, Rodger Brulotte and Marc Griffin. Doucet called Expos games until the team moved to Washington, DC in 2005. He is known for his distinctive bass voice, and a precise and descriptive use of French that was fundamental in popularizing French-language baseball terms.
Currently, Doucet works for Encore Baseball Montreal, which is dedicated to keeping baseball alive in Quebec, and is the radio broadcaster for the home games of les Capitales de Québec.
He is a member of SABR and has authored or co-authored a number of books on baseball, including the definitive history of the Expos co-written with Marc Robitaille; the first volume was published in 2009 and the second in 2011. He has been a finalist for the Hall of Fame's Ford Frick Award on a number of occasions since the Expos' departure forced him into semi-retirement.
