Let's Get Ready to Rumble: ; No One Really Likes Each Other in Heated American League Rivalry
Charleston Daily Mail › October 13, 2004
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NEW YORK - They say familiarity breeds contempt, and nowhere is that more evident than in professional sports' most intense rivalry, the New York Yankees versus Boston Red Sox, which resumes on a grand stage tonight when the teams open the American League Championship Series in Yankee Stadium.
From bickering owners who wage bidding wars over elite players and then rip each other in the newspapers, to players who can't seem to go a series without some kind of bench-clearing incident, to fans for whom no epithet is too vulgar to slap on a T-shirt or chant in a stadium, these teams have a genuine dislike for each other, and their fans a genuine hatred for each other.See the full content of this document
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Let's Get Ready to Rumble: ; No One Really Likes Each Other in Heated American League Rivalry
Their disdain is born of nearly a century of Yankee dominance over the Red Sox, New York boasting of its 26 World Series championships while Boston wallows in the dreaded Curse of the Bambino, blamed for the Red Sox's endless hardships - Bucky Dent, Bill Buckner, Aaron Boone, et al. - and failure to win a World Series since 1918.
But the tone of t...See the full content of this document
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