BOSTON – Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona learned something from his first World Series title four years ago and he was looking forward to a relaxing evening Monday at the premier of a DVD tracing his team’s journey to their second championship this fall.

“I’ve learned to lay low, just watching a few volleyball games and really not doing much,” Francona said of his offseason experience after clinching baseball’s most coveted title for the second time in four years. “The last time I was doing speaking engagement all the time and ran myself ragged before spring training.”

Francona, Curt Schilling, reliever Manny Delcarmen, Red Sox executives and a few hundred fans were on hand for a red carpet premier of “World Series ’07: Colorado Rockies vs. Boston Red Sox.”

The DVD chronicles how the Red Sox breezed past the Rockies in a four-game sweep. Boston fan Matt Damon narrates this documentary chronicling the team’s road to victory, whose dramatic high-point came in the American League championship series when the Red Sox rebounded from a 3-1 deficit to win the last three games over the Cleveland Indians.

“The last time we did this, I was in London raced here and didn’t get the chance to see the video,” Francona said before the release of the DVD at the Wang Theater in Boston. “It’s going to be something to enjoy.”

“There’s a certain sense of accomplishment. It’d be fun, it’s not something I relish, the journey is the fun part,” he said.

World Series share money declines

NEW YORK – A full World Series share was worth $308,236 for the Boston Red Sox, down from the record $362,173 set by the St. Louis Cardinals last year.

Boston’s split of the postseason players’ pool was $18.89 million, down from the $20.02 million the Cardinals shared when they won the title. The Red Sox voted 47 full shares, 14 partial shares and 11 cash awards.

NL champion Colorado, swept by the Red Sox, voted 44 full shares of $233,505, five partial shares and 45 cash awards. Mandy Coolbaugh, the widow of Rockies minor league coach Mike Coolbaugh, was voted a full share. Mike Coolbaugh was killed when struck by a foul ball during a game in July.

Last year, a full share on the Detroit Tigers was worth $291,668 after they lost to the Cardinals in the Series.

World Series ticket prices were basically unchanged this year, and revenue was down because of the success of the Red Sox. Fenway Park has the smallest capacity among major league ballparks. The players’ pool dropped to $52.46 million from a record $55.60 million. The pool includes 60 percent of ticket money from the first four games of the World Series, the first four games of each league championship series and the first three contests of each division series.

Full shares for the league championship series losers came to $139,460 for the Arizona Diamondbacks and $107,458 for the Cleveland Indians.

Sox to play exhibition at L.A. Coliseum

LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers will honor their 50th anniversary in Los Angeles with an exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox at the Coliseum next spring.

The game will be played March 29 and proceeds will go to the official Dodgers’ charity, ThinkCure. The Dodgers played in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years after moving from Brooklyn in 1958. They shared the stadium with football tenants Southern California, UCLA and the Los Angeles Rams. The baseball team moved to Chavez Ravine when Dodger Stadium opened in 1962.

On May 7, 1959, the Dodgers and Yankees drew 93,103 for an exhibition.

in honor of Roy Campanella.

The Coliseum, used for football, has a strange baseball configuration. When the Dodgers played there, they installed a 42-foot screen in left field to compensate for the foul pole being only 250 feet from home plate.

Wally Moon, a left-handed hitting outfielder for Los Angeles, developed a knack for hitting the ball high enough to clear the screen, and the drives became known as “Moon Shots.”

“We always knew the Dodgers would return to the Coliseum before the NFL,” Coliseum Commission vice president David Israel said jokingly.