Red Sox-Yankees: The Rivalry of a Lifetime

Steph Rockwood by Correspondent Written on March 07, 2008
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It all began in 1920, when one man would start a rivalry between two teams.  Those two teams would build up their rivalry to have the strength to go on for what’s been 90 years.

Who would have thought that the trade of one of the most prolific baseball players to ever play the game had the power to start something that would continue even after he was six feet under?

USA Today has called it “the fiercest rivalry in sports.”  My most memorable moments as a Red Sox fan were when this rivalry was expressed.  The instances that stand out in my mind are, well of course their bench-clearing fights.

I thought I would just go through some occurrences that make up what we know today as Red Sox/Yankee baseball:

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