Montrealers wishing to pay their respects to Rodger Brulotte, the beloved voice of baseball within the province who handed away final month at age 79, can accomplish that this week.
Members of the general public are invited to a viewing at IGA Stadium on Thursday from 12-7 p.m.
Brulotte’s members of the family and family members will probably be available.
Individuals are being inspired to put on the colors of their favorite sports activities groups “in remembrance of Rodger’s passions.”
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A personal, invitation-only occasion at a funeral dwelling will probably be held Friday. On Saturday, a funeral ceremony will happen at Sainte-Thérèse-d’Avila Church in Sainte-Thérèse.
Recognized for his signature home-run name “Bonsoir, elle est partie!” — which interprets to “Good night, it’s gone!” — Brulotte was a famend broadcaster and columnist who may nonetheless be heard calling MLB video games in French final summer season on TVA Sports activities.
The Montreal-born Brulotte underwent surgical procedure final September to take away a cancerous tumour from his again, however the illness returned in latest months.
He started working for the Montreal Expos as a scout in 1969 and later helped create the mascot “Youppi!” as a member of the membership’s public relations and advertising and marketing employees.
The charismatic Brulotte went on to take pleasure in an extended media profession in radio and tv, calling Expos and MLB video games on CKAC — alongside legendary play-by-play announcer Jacques Doucet — in addition to RDS and TVA Sports activities. He additionally wrote columns for the Journal de Montréal through the years.
Brulotte joined TVA Sports activities’ Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts in 2011. He famously shouted “Vladimir! Vladimir! Bonsoir!” when then-rising star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — whose father starred for the Expos — hit a walk-off dwelling run in an exhibition recreation at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in 2018.
Along with his work within the media, Brulotte was additionally on the coronary heart of efforts to convey the Expos again to Montreal, working alongside former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre.
Brulotte additionally served as president of the Ligue de baseball junior élite du Québec for greater than 10 years and was inducted into the Quebec Baseball Corridor of Fame as a journalist in 2014.
In 2024, he obtained the Jacques-Beauchamp Tribute Award from Sports activities Québec as a builder.
–With recordsdata from The Canadian Press