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When professional baseball returned to Montreal last week with the St. Louis Cardinals and Toronto Blue Jays playing a pair of exhibition games at Olympic Stadium, baseball fans might have noticed a lot more Expos caps on display around town. But the sightings aren’t unique to Montreal — Expos caps have enjoyed renewed popularity across Canada and the United States.

Lids Canada, a sports apparel chain with 139 stores in Canada, confirmed that Expos cap sales continue to rise.

“Our sales of Expos caps and apparel continue to increase every year, not just in Montreal, but across Canada,” Lids director of buying Len Stener said last week.

Stener added that they are Lids’ No. 5 selling cap, behind only the Blue Jays, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox, and ahead of the World Series champion Houston Astros.

During the early 2010s, Expos caps and jerseys became particularly popular among hiphop and rap groups, such as OutKast, and also became a staple of urban fashion in Canada and the U.S.