OLYMPIC-SIZED STADIUM HEADACHE? NEW BALLPARK VITAL TO EXPOS

          The ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH's Bernie Miklasz examines
     the Expos and Olympic Stadium and writes, "My colleague Rick
     Hummel called for a taxi to take us back to the hotel.  The
     cab company didn't know what Olympic Stadium was."  Miklasz,
     who notes that the Expos are averaging only 9,713 fans per
     game "inside the awful, oxygen-depleted" stadium: "If the
     Expos are to survive in Montreal, a new ballpark is
     mandatory.  Investors believe the Expos can average 30,000
     fans a game with a venue in a bustling, popular
     neighborhood."  More Miklasz: "Just visiting Olympic
     Stadium, you understand why fans are reluctant to buy
     tickets.  Vast, dark, dank and synthetic, Olympic easily is
     the worst baseball setting in the majors.  A new stadium
     certainly would rejuvenate the fans" (ST. LOUIS POST-
     DISPATCH, 8/26).