Column: ‘Devastating’ baseball strike memories linger 25 years later for Moises Alou

(Eric Risberg/Associated Press) Expos hitter Moises Alou watches his game-winning homer during the ninth inning of a 4-3 win in San Francisco on April 19, 1994. Four months later, a strike squelched the Expos’ singular season.The Padres special assistant was hitting .339 when the strike ended the World Series — and began to mark the end of the Expos

Dust off the memories of the 1994 Major League Baseball season, the dominating rise of the Montreal Expos and the strike that wiped it all away and a unique thought comes to mind for All-Star Moises Alou.

When negotiations unraveled between owners and the players’ association 25 years ago, the Expos — the MLB-best 74-40 Expos — had no idea it…