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Article: Red Sox Extend Francona's Contract
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- March 15, 2006
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HOWARD ULMAN, AP Sports Writer
AP Online
03-15-2006
Dateline: FORT MYERS, Fla.
Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona talks on the field during batting practice before the spring training baseball game with the Cincinnati Reds in Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday, March 14, 2006. Francona and the Red Sox agreed on a two-year contract extension for the 2007 and 2008 seasons on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brita Meng Outzen)
Terry Francona has found a home in Boston.
The manager who led the Red Sox to their first World Series championship in 86 years received a two-year contract extension through 2008, seven months after uprooting his wife and children and moving just outside the city where he works.
"I'm very ...