Summary
FORT MYERS, Fla. - Fans at City of Palms Park were ready for Boston's final spring training game in Florida. The Red Sox weren't.
In an extraordinary move, Boston players voted to boycott a nationally televised exhibition and Wednesday afternoon's flight to Japan for next week's season-opening series against Oakland, upset that coaches weren't going to receive the same $40,000 payments negotiated for players by their union.See the full content of this document
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Japan Trip On for Red Sox, Athletics
A couple of hours later, all was resolved, and the Red Sox took the field one hour late for a 4-3 loss to Toronto before a crowd of 7,868.
Across the country in Phoenix, Athletics players also considered a boycott. They didn't take batting ...See the full content of this document
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