Red Sox vs.Yankees 2001

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When we think of Rivalries in sports every region in North America can make a case for their team and their arch rival as being the most intense. Florida and Florida State college football is always a sellout filled with passionate fans that are separated by only a swamp or two. The Mid-West can make a claim for Kentucky and Kansas college basketball as being an invigorating and inspirational match-up that has existed for decades. What about California??? Dodgers and Giants have always peaked the interest of the baseball community in that area. Michigan vs. Michigan State college hoop, Texas and Texas A&M college football, Colorado Avalanche tangling with the Dallas Stars is almost always a complelling matchup. And perhaps the creme de la creme are two schools whose campusess are seperated by less than 10 miles and are always at the pinnacle of the NCAA hoop scene, Duke and North Carolina. The list goes on and on!

However, even though we, as sports fans, can spew out dozens of additional rivalries that bring out the best and the worst of us, their is one matchup that this web author deems to be the most heated, long lasting, and intense feud for almost a century. The Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees have exhibited all the attributes that makeup for a major league no holds barrerd brawl! This rivalry has spanded generations. The sale of the Bambino for $125,000 in cash from the Sox to the Yanks in December of 1919, the year after the Red Sox won their last world series. Thus, the dreaded "Curse of the Bambino"surfaced and is still chanted throughout the two ballparks over 80 years later. Ted Williams and Jimmie Fox or Mickey Mantle and Joe Dimaggio? Bucky Dent or Carlton Fisk, Wade Boggs or Don Mattingly, Nomar or Jeter? The endless barrage of comparisons and history is unparalleled in American Sports.



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