⚾ Framed Autographed/Signed Vladimir Guerrero Jr. & Sr. Montreal Expos 16x20 Baseball Photo Beckett BAS COA – The Beckett BAS-Certified Dual-Signed 16x20 Montreal Expos Baseball Photo Hand-Signed by Both Vladimir Guerrero Sr. and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., the Father-Son Combination Whose Connection to the Montreal Expos Is the Rarest and Most Personal Kind: Vladimir Sr. Played His Greatest Seasons There, and Vladimir Jr. Was Born There While His Father Wore the Expos Uniform

⚾ Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was born March 16, 2001, in Montréal, Québec – born in the city where his father was playing professional baseball for the Montreal Expos, born in the Canada that would never field another Major League Baseball team once the Expos relocated to Washington in 2004. Vladimir Sr. was in his sixth season with the Expos when his son arrived in the world, already established as the most feared hitter in the National League East and the outfielder that every opposing pitcher prepared for differently than every other opposing hitter. The son who would go on to become a Blue Jay and an All-Star was born in the city where the father was making himself into a Hall of Famer. The dual-signed Montreal Expos 16x20 photo captures both of those stories in a single framed display. ⚾

⚾ Vladimir Guerrero Sr. was born February 9, 1975, in Nizao, in the San Cristóbal Province of the Dominican Republic – one of the most prolific baseball-producing regions in the history of the sport – and signed with the Montreal Expos organization as a teenager. He arrived at the major league level in 1996, and the seasons that followed in Montréal were the seasons that defined him as a player and defined the city's relationship with baseball at the highest level. The Expos signed him to a long-term deal and watched him blossom into one of the most complete hitters the National League had seen in decades: an outfielder with a cannon arm rated among the strongest in the game, a runner who covered ground in the outfield with deceptive speed for his size, and at the plate, something close to impossible. 🏆

⚾ Guerrero Sr.'s plate approach was legendary not just for what it produced but for how it produced it. He swung at pitches that no other professional hitter attempted to swing at – pitches in the dirt, pitches above his shoulders, pitches two feet outside the strike zone in either direction – and he hit those pitches hard enough to produce extra-base hits at a rate that defied the conventional wisdom about what happens when a hitter expands his zone. Pitchers who tried to get him to chase got punished. Pitchers who tried to throw strikes got punished. The eight All-Star Game selections, the career .318 batting average, the 449 home runs, the 2004 American League Most Valuable Player Award with the Anaheim Angels – all of it traces its origin to the seasons spent in Montréal, in the Expos uniform, in the building years that the Montreal fans who watched him play remember the way fans remember the greats who were there before they were known everywhere. ⚾

⚾ The Montreal Expos carried the weight of a baseball city that deserved more than the sport's circumstances gave it. The 1994 team – the team that had the best record in baseball when the players' strike ended the season in August, the team that would likely have made the postseason and possibly have won a championship if the games had been played – is the standard against which the franchise's potential is still measured, more than thirty years later. Guerrero Sr. arrived two years after that heartbreak and gave the Expos eight seasons of the most spectacular individual play the franchise had ever seen. The relocation to Washington in 2004 ended the Expos. The memories, and the memorabilia, remain. 🎴

⚾ Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grew up to become the Toronto Blue Jays' franchise cornerstone: a first baseman with the same natural hitting gifts his father carried, the 2021 American League home run leader with 48 home runs, the 2021 All-Star Game Home Run Derby champion, a multi-time All-Star who has established himself as one of the premier offensive players in the American League in the 2020s. Both Guerreros signed this Montreal Expos 16x20 photo – the Beckett BAS COA verifies both signatures – connecting the HOF father and the All-Star son to the franchise that started both of their stories. ⭐

⚾ Vladimir Guerrero Sr. Right Field. Nizao, Dominican Republic. Montreal Expos, Anaheim Angels, Texas Rangers. 8x All-Star. 2004 AL MVP. .318 Career Average. 449 HRs. Baseball Hall of Fame (2018). Vladimir Guerrero Jr. First Baseman. Montréal, Québec. Toronto Blue Jays. 2021 AL HR Leader (48 HRs). Multi-Time All-Star. Montreal Expos 16x20 Photo. Dual-Signed. Beckett BAS COA. Autographed Sports Memorabilia. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Framed Autographed/Signed Vladimir Guerrero Jr. & Sr. Montreal Expos 16x20 Baseball Photo Beckett BAS COA. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.