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The Boston Red Sox open their 2008 Grapefruit League home season with
their first game action since the World Series on Feb. 28, when they host
Boston College and Northeastern University in split-squad contests at City
of Palms Park in Fort Myers, Fla. Tickets for the college doubleheader on
Feb. 28 will be half-price. In 2007, the Red Sox sold out all of their
Spring Training home games.
It will be a different kind of Spring Training
for the defending World Series champions, who will depart Florida following
their March 19 home game against the Blue Jays for an International
excursion to Tokyo, where the Sox will officially open their 2008 season
with two games against the Oakland Athletics.
The Red Sox will open the 20-game Grapefruit League portion of their
schedule on Feb. 29 with a road game against the Twins, who also train in
Fort Myers.
The club tried to make the most of its abbreviated spring in Florida when
planning the schedule. Of the 22 games the Bosox play in Florida, thirteen
will be at City of Palms Park and three at Hammond Stadium giving them 16
games in Ft. Myers.
Among the teams who will visit City of Palms Park are the Twins (March 2,
7) Pirates (March 4), Reds (March 5 & 15), Dodgers (March 6), Marlins (March
8), Mets (March 11), Rays (March 13), Orioles (March 14), and the finale
against the Jays on the 19th.
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The Red Sox will play their chief rivals -- the Yankees -- just once
during Spring Training, and that will be a road game at Tampa on March 17.
Some other road stops include visits to Jupiter to play the Marlins (March
3), Fort Lauderdale for a split-squad contest with the Orioles (March 7),
Vero Beach against the Dodgers (March 9), Port St. Lucie for a meeting with
the Mets (March 10) and Bradenton against the Pirates (March 16).
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