Red Sox Players Vote To Boycott Japan Trip
Published 3/19/2008 at chicagotribune.com - Sports
The Red Sox remained adamant just after noon today that they would not make their scheduled flight to Japan this afternoon, the result of a dispute with Major League Baseball over promised compensation for the coaching staff that the team learned this morning had been denied.
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