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Article: Yankees vs. Red Sox: greatest rivalry in sports.
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- Baseball Digest
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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IF YOU GO BY THE NATURAL assumption that a classic rivalry must have give and take--an exchange of triumphs and failures, a relatively equitable parceling of fulfillment and despair--then the Yankees and Red Sox don't qualify. Not even close.
Their rivalry has been compared, from the standpoint of relative success, to that between a hammer and a nail.
Oh, the Yankees and BoSox have give and take, all right. The Red Sox give--starting with Babe Ruth and continuing right through then-manager Grady Little's ill-fated refusal to lift Pedro Martinez in Game 7 of last year's American League Championship Series--and the Yankees take.
But it doesn't ...