Dawson, whose nickname was "The Hawk," played 1443 games with the Expos, 4th highest in franchise history. As an Expo, Dawson set single-season club records for home runs (32, now 7th), RBI (113, now 4th), extra base hits (78, now 7th), and sacrifice flies (18, still 1st). He still holds the Expos' career record for sacrifice flies (71), and is the only player to hit 200 home runs and steal 200 bases with Montreal. Dawson was elected to the Hall of Fame on Wednesday,January 6, 2010 by the Baseball Writers Association of America, with more than 77% of the ballots in his 9th year on the ballot. Bert Blyleven, in his 13th year on the ballot was 5 votes short, and Roberto Alomar in his first year on the ballot was 8 votes short.
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