BIOGRAPHIE ET HISTOIRE
de Jacques Doucet Jacques Doucet était descripteur des matchs des Expos à la radio depuis 1972 en plus d'effectuer des reportages journaliers en provenance du camp d'entraînement et de participer aux émissions spéciales sur le baseball. Il a cependant suivi les activités des Expos sur une base quotidienne depuis l'admission de la concession dans la Ligue nationale en 1969, étant le journaliste attitré au baseball pour le quotidien La Presse. Pendant plusieurs années, il a fait la description des parties des Séries de championnat et de la Série mondiale. From 1972 thru 2004, Jacques Doucet was the Voice of the Expos on radio. He also did daily reports from spring training each year, and participated in many talk-radio shows. He covered the Expos since their inception in the National Baseball League in 1969, as the baseball beat writer for La Presse, from 1969 thru 1971 before becoming their French announcer. And for many years, he broadcasted Playoffs and World Series games. Faits saillants de sa carrière :
O Agence Presse Canadienne (Service Français) … 1959-1960 Canadian Press News Agency (French Service) … 1959 - 1960 O Journaliste sportif au Nouveau Journal … 1961 Le Nouveau Journal (Daily newspaper) … 1961
O Journaliste sportif au quotidian La Presse … 1962-1971 (Les trois dernières années à titre de chroniqueur de baseball affecté à la couverture quotidienne des Expos). La Presse (Daily Newspaper» … 1962 thru 1971 (The last three years as the baseball beat writer, covering the Expos on a daily basis)
O Les Expos ... 1972-2004 (Commentateur au réseau radiophonique français des Expos – Il a aussi commenté les matches des Étoiles, des séries éliminatoires et des Séries Mondiales, 1982-1995)
The Expos … 1972 thru 2004 (Baseball radio French announcer) – Also broadcasted All-Stars Cames, Playoffs and World Series 1982 thru 1995)
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Réseau RDS ... Commentateur des matches des séries éliminatoires et des series mondiales en 2003 de même qu’à l’occasion en 2005, 2006, 2007. O RDS Television … 2003-2004 and 2005 Playoffs and World Series.
Admis au Temple de la Renommée du baseball Québécois-RDS en 2002. Admitted to the Quebec Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002
O Admis au Temple de la Renommée des Expos en 2003. Admitted to the Expos Hall of Fame in 2003
O Admis au Temple de la Renommée du Baseball Canadien en 2004 à titre de titulaire du Prix Jack Graney (semblable au Prix Ford C. Frick de Cooperstown) Admitted to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004 (as winner of the Jack Graney Award – similar to the C. Ford Frick Award in Cooperstown) A décrit deux matches parfaits
O Broadcasted two perfect games Plus de deux millions d’auditeurs n’oublieront jamais sa description du match où Rick Monday a brisé le cœur des partisans des Expos en Octobre 1981 Over two millions listeners will never forget his play by play of the in famous «Blue Monday» game that ended the Expos season in 1981.
O À titre de commentateur, M. Doucet a décrit plus de 6 000 matches de baseball, plus de 57 000 manches et au-delà de 1,8 millions de lancers etc As a commentator, Doucet has described over 6000 baseball games, 57 000 innings, over 1,8 millions pitches etc. O Une statistique des plus éloquentes, c’est qu’il s’est adressé à plus de 540 000 000 d'auditeurs au cours de sa carrière
His greatest statistics is the 540,000,000 listeners over the course of his career À permis de faire connaître et à faire apprécier le baseball à des milliers de francophones.
He was instrumental in translating the vast terminology of baseball into French language and making it accessible to million of French speaking Quebecers
Grâce à sa vaste expérience et à ses connaissances de sa description du baseball à la radio, il a contribué à former et conseiller plusieurs nouveaux commentateurs au Canada français. He was instrumental in translating the vast terminology of baseball into French language and had a great influence among young broadcasters in Quebec
2005: Président honoraire du tournoi provincial de baseball pee-wee de Fleurimont 2005: Honorary President of the Provincial pee-wee baseball Tournement in Fleurimont 2006: Depuis 2006, commentateur des matches des Capitales de Québec de la Ligue Can-Am et decrétaire-général adjoint de la Ligue de baseball Junior Élite du Québec. 2006: Since 2006, broadcaster for the Quebec City Capitales of the Can-Am League and assistant Secretary general of the Quebec Junior Elite baseball League 2007: Président honoraire des Championnats Canadiens de baseball toutes catégories présentés à Québec 2007: Honorary president of the Canadian all-categories baseball championships in Quebec City
Jacques Doucet (born March 8, 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 his first experience in broadcasting, doing 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 an 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 1570, which held the French radio broadcast rights, as Roy moved to TV broadcasts once a week. In 1972, as 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, and later on for All-Star, League Championship and World Series games and a selection of preseason Expos games. After Télémedia merged with Radiomutuel on September 30, 1994, creating the new Radiomédia network, he went back in the fold as an Expos employee in 1997 and continued to do play-by-play as the games continued to be aired on CKAC 730 until the end of 2003. (He was heard for a few games on CKVL 850 (now CINF 690) in 1995, and on CJMS 1040 in 2002 and 2003. 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 6000 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 admitted into the Quebec-RDS Baseball Hall of Fame in 2002, the Expos Hall of Fame in 2003 and 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 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. And he has now been broadcasting the Quebec City Capitales’ games for the last three seasons.
FÉLICITATIONS MONSIEUR DOUCET !
Mercredi le 7 décembre 2005 - Encore Baseball Montréal est fier d’annoncer que monsieur Jacques Doucet s’est hissé au 3e rang du choix du public pour le Prix Ford C. Frick 2006 qui pourrait lui ouvrir les portes du prestigieux Temple de la Renommée du baseball à Cooperstown. Encore Baseball Montréal s’était donné comme objectif que monsieur Jacques Doucet puisse être parmi les 3 premiers candidats du choix du
public, et nous avons réussi. Il a obtenu plus de 15,002 votes de la part de ses supporteurs. Jacques Doucet, la voix des Expos de Montréal pendant plus de 33 ans, est en lice pour être admis à Cooperstown.
Maryse Filion