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Sports Travel: Red Sox In Japan, No Green Kaiju To Hold Them Back

Typically when a player on a champion professional sports team is asked of his (or her) post-championship plans, the player will say, "We're going to Disney World!" Hopefully members of the World Champion Boston Red Sox got their childhood dreams fulfilled before this week, when they played their season opener against the Oakland A's in Tokyo, Japan.

The Sox played two exhibition games against the Nippon Professional Baseball teams the Hanshin Tigers and Yomiuri Giants, then won their opener at the Tokyo Dome and lost their second game -- but most importantly, the game turned out thousands of Sox fans who cheered through "Sweet Caroline" for the first time. (In Japan and looking for like-minded people? Try the new bar in Kyoto called Fenway Park.) Both the Sox and the A's return to the US to play more exhibition games before their official home openers.

Related Stories:
· History of Singing Sweet Caroline at Fenway [Jaunted]
· JAL 744 For Boston Red Sox Trip To Japan [Airliners.net]
· Tokyo Dome [Official Site, in English]

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