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Terry Francona is the Major League Baseball manager of the Boston Red Sox. Since he has taken over the club, the Red Sox have won 279 games, the 3rd most in the team's history for a manager's first 3 seasons. On Feb. 28, 2008, Francona's contract was extended until the end of the 2011 season. Prior to joining the Red Sox, Francona was a bench coach for the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers. He was also the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. Before Francona made a career as a coach, he played 12 professional baseball seasons from 1980-91. He and his wife Jacque live in Boston and have four children together.
Terry Francona is the Major League Baseball manager of the Boston Red Sox. Since he has taken over the club, the Red Sox have won 279 games, the 3rd most in the team's history for a manager's first 3 seasons. On Feb. 28, 2008, Francona's contract was extended until the end of the 2011 season. Prior to joining the Red Sox, Francona was a bench coach for the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers. He was also the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. Before Francona made a career as a coach, he played 12 professional baseball seasons from 1980-91. He and his wife Jacque live in Boston and have four children together.
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Boston's reign in sports world coming to an end
The economy is tanking, your 401K balance might cover a nice night out in Manhattan and you suspect that the trickle of sweat on your forehead may actually be water from the melting polar ice cap. But wait, there is some reassuring news out there, a sign...Tags: All Stars, Tom Brady, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Super Bowl
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Rays swap starters for Game 5 against Boston
The Tampa Bay Rays are giving Scott Kazmir the chance to pitch them into the World Series. The 24-year-old left-hander was moved up in the rotation so he could pitch in the potential AL pennant clincher against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night at...Tags: All Stars, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Fenway Park
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Kazmir to pitch instead of Shields for Rays in Game 5 of ALCS against Matsuzaka, Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) _ The Tampa Bay Rays are giving Scott Kazmir the chance to pitch them into the World Series. The 24-year-old left-hander was moved up in the rotation so he could start in the potential AL pennant clincher against the Boston Red Sox on Thursday...Tags: All Stars, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Fenway Park
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Rays touch all bases, repeatedly, in Game 4
kat.obrien@newsday.comThe Tampa Bay Rays are not just beating the Red Sox en route to what would be a shocking berth in the World Series. They are steamrolling them. The Rays beat up on the Red Sox for the second consecutive time last night at Fenway Park, clobbering them,...Tags: All Stars, American League, Baseball, Major League Baseball, Fenway Park
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Ortiz looking like Small Papi in playoffs
kat.obrien@newsday.comDavid Ortiz, who is touted on T-shirts around Boston as "The King of Clutch" is looking rather ordinary these days. Ortiz went into last night's Game 4 of the American League Championship Series batting just .148 this postseason with one extra-base hit (a...Tags: American League, David Ortiz, Boston Red Sox, Manny Ramirez
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Wake-Up Call Might Be Too Late
BOSTON — There was a point during the 2007 postseason when Tim Wakefield said he was in so much pain that he couldn't lift the bedcovers off of him. After the painful beating Wakefield and the Red Sox took Tuesday night at Fenway Park, we are only...Tags: All Stars, American League, Aaron Boone, Baseball Injuries, Tampa Bay Rays
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Rays Roll To 3-1 Series Lead
The Tampa Bay Rays have settled many scores throughout their historic rags-to-riches season, and many of those debts were repaid at Fenway Park.
In June, the Rays took the fight to the Red Sox in the most literal terms, declaring after a bench-clearing...Tags: Daisuke Matsuzaka, David Ortiz, Jonathan Papelbon, Mike Mussina, Fenway Park
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Consummate pro Kotsay getting just desserts in postseason with Red Sox
It hasn't taken Mark Kotsay long to become a vital part of the Red Sox fabric. In the clubhouse. On the field. Through the media. It almost feels as though Kotsay has been here throughout this mini-dynasty even though he's only been with the team for...Tags: All Stars, American League, Miguel Cabrera, Coco Crisp, Baseball
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On The Fly: Rays Simply Better
>>The Red Sox can look back on a bunch of ifs in the ALCS. If Josh Beckett pitched like Josh Beckett. If Terry Francona wasn't quite so patient with Beckett in Game 2. If Jon Lester pitched like Jon Lester. If Mike Lowell were healthy. But if the Sox lose...Tags: Jon Kitna, Spring Training, National Basketball Association, Roger Goodell, National Football League
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Tampa Bay on brink of World Series
Associated PressThey fluttered in and rocketed out: Three more homers sent sailing over the Green Monster to help the Tampa Bay Rays blow out the Boston Red Sox for the second straight game and move within one win of their first American League pennant. Evan Longoria...Tags: All Stars, Miguel Cabrera, American League, Tampa Bay Rays, Daisuke Matsuzaka
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Tampa Bay will take off the tarps for remaining home games
Sentinel Staff WriterTampa Bay Rays officials have decided to take tarps off the seats in the upper levels of Tropicana Field's upper deck for all remaining home playoff games, beginning with a potential Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. Those seats have been...Tags: All Stars, American League, Tickets, Tampa Bay Rays, J.D. Drew
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Tampa Bay Rays on the brink of World Series in Beantown
Sentinel Staff WriterYou couldn't cook a Fenway Frank as quickly as the Tampa Bay Rays silenced Red Sox Nation during Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Tuesday night. The game's first four plate appearances produced three runs. After Akinori Iwamura struck...Tags: All Stars, American League, Television Industry, Tampa Bay Rays, Television
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