Amedée Roy Stadium (french: Stade Amedée-Roy) is a

baseball stadium A ballpark, or baseball park, is a type of sports venue where baseball is played. The playing field is divided into the infield, an area whose dimensions are rigidly defined, and the outfield, where dimensions can vary widely from place to pla ...

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...

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, Canada. It serves as the home ballpark of an amateur baseball team, the Sherbrooke Expos, and has hosted baseball games during events such as the 2002 World Junior Baseball Championship and the

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History

The current stadium is the third to be known Stade Amedée-Roy. The first Stade Amedée-Roy was constructed in 1938. It burned down in September 1951, hours after the

Sherbrooke Athletics The Sherbrooke Indians were a minor league baseball team located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. They played in the Provincial League from 1948 to 1951 as the Sherbrooke Athletics and again from 1953 to 1955 as the Indians. They won the first Prov ...

completed their season by winning the league pennant. The city did not host a baseball team in 1952, while the stadium was rebuilt. The second Stade Amedée-Roy was first used by the

Sherbrooke Indians The Sherbrooke Indians were a minor league baseball team located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. They played in the Provincial League (baseball minor league), Provincial League from 1948 to 1951 as the Sherbrooke Athletics and again from 1953 to 19 ...

, an affiliate of the

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, from 1953 to 1955. It was later home to the

Sherbrooke Pirates The Sherbrooke Pirates (French language, French: ''les Pirates de Sherbrooke'') was the name of a Canada, Canadian minor league baseball franchise in the Double-A Eastern League (1938–2020), Eastern League representing Sherbrooke, Québec, that e ...

of the Double-A Eastern League from 1972 to 1973. The ballpark was razed at some point in the early 1980s.

Tenants

Amedée Roy Stadium is the home field of the Sherbrooke Expos of the Ligue de Baseball Majeur du Québec (LBMQ). It had been the home field of the Sherbrooke Athletiques BRP of the

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(LBEQ) until they relocated to Granby after the 2009 season. In 2003, the Montreal Royales of the short-lived

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played their only season at Amedée Roy Stadium, unable to find a suitable stadium in

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. The stadium co-hosted the 2002 World Junior Baseball Championship with Julien Morin Stadium in nearby

Coaticook Coaticook () is a town on the Coaticook River in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Coaticook Regional County Municipality, and its southern border is also the Canada–United States border. In addition to the primary community ...

. The stadium was also used as a baseball venue for the

along with Julien Morin Stadium in Coaticook.

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