Great Rivalry CL
Few contests have been of longer duration, more fiercely contested or more passionately followed than the baseball rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox. This is its story, involving dramatic events and heroes like Babe Ruth, perhaps the greatest player of all, whose sale at the hands of Harry Frazee to the Yankees put things in high gear; Jimmie Foxx and Joe Cronin; Ted Williams and Jo DiMaggio, whose dual pursuit of the home...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0899199178
ISBN13:9780899199177
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Length:359 Pages
Weight:0.11 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Time for a New Edition
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
How sweet for a Red Sox fan to read this book post-October 2004. All the pain of the "almosts" and the "not quites" and the expletive deleteds has been assuaged by the recent World Series win by the Red Sox. This book is a wonderful history from 1901 onward, detailing the too close for comfort relationship between the Yankees and the Red Sox. It's time, though, for the finishing chapters--one one the agony of 2003 and the ecstacy of 2004. One is reminded, also, of just how truly amazing Babe Ruth was. Barry Bonds is amazing, but how's his pitching?
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