Great Rivalry CL

By Ed Linn

Book Overview

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 run record in 1941 marks one of the highest points in the game; Billy Martin, Mickey Mantle, Carl Yastrzemski, Reggie Jackson, Carlton Fisk and a dugout-full of others.

• 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

Time for a New Edition

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?