All members of the Canadiens wore Carter's number 8 during the pre-game skate. A video tribute to Carter's career followed accompanied by the Eagles' song "New Kid in Town" in homage to his ...

The number 8 is near and dear to my heart because of a former Montreal Expos catcher who wore the number with pride as an ambassador for Canada. MLB: Gary Carter.

Gary Carter, No. 8. That the late catcher of the 1986 team hasn't already been honored in this fashion, even posthumously, is a puzzle, for Carter represents the intersecting portion of the Venn ...

Which is how Carter, 30, found himself in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Feb. 22, 1985, where the decade of attention he had deserved but never quite received suddenly rained down from every corner.

The Rookie <br>Gary Carter, then with the Montreal Expos, gets ready to bat during a game against the Chicago Cubs in 1978. Though he became most famous as a Mets catcher, Carter first made his ...