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Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry

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Though I live in Japan, I know about the rivalry.
The chance that I knew about the rivalry was when Hideki Matsui joined to the Yankees. In Japan Hideki Matsui was the best super star player and the most famouse player.
That is why, it was natural that I had the interest of major league baseball as same time Masui got to be the menbership of Yankees.

And I got to be a deep fan day by day. Off course I got to know about the existence of Red sox. And I knew what Red Sox have been apart from the world champion rings, that is [the curse of banbeeno] contunuing for about 100 years.

On the one hand, I love Yankees naturally that there is Matsui, on the other hand, I love Red Sox too. There are many reasons that I love the team: the unique atomosphere of the Fenway Park, to the contrary for Yankees, the style(hair, bear etc) of the menbers of Red Sox is different and freestyle. I think that the differece of both teams is the thinkin way of the both team GM etc, but additionaly the long history over about 100 years is related to such different style.

I am interested to the fan's behavior among Red Sox and Yankees.
When the both team played, I was very surprised to the high tension and atmosphere of the fans. Just today, 2004 league champion ship have finished. Fainally Red Sox won. For the game even, there are many events except for the game event: the fans who wore T shirts[who is daddy?] or the two time protests of Red Sox for A Rod' playing and miss judge homeran. Off course I love the high level games between Red Sox and Yankees, but I love the events out of the fields. The events just will not exists if the both teams.

This year the league championship was Yankees got the consecutive three winnning at first, in the time, I believed that Yankees will have got the championship certainly. The reason was what the team have never lost the championship if the team got the three consecutive winnning from the first game to the third game.
But Red Sox changed the history even: the three consecutive losser never win.

I understood that The Great Rivalry have the power that change and break through the great history.

Thank you for reading my poor writing.

Make room on your bookshelf - perhaps between the "Baseball Encyclopedia" and the "Dickson Baseball Dictionary" - for "Red Sox vs Yankee: The Great Rivalry". No, you better keep it handy on the coffee table in front of the TV. It's the solid reference that fans of both Yankees and Red Sox will be turning to as the ultimate authority on all facts, players, statistics, details, history and commentary. It's all there. The Frommers have compiled a work worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize: they remained totally neutral in this wonderful baseball rivalry. The Frommers' book provides all the that one would ever need to know in the never-ending discussions of the Red Sox vs. Yankees. Every baseball fan everywhere will love this book -- even Bostonians who still root for the Braves and New Yorkers who still root for the Dodgers.

Not since the Hattfields and McCoys has there been a rivalry that is so intense that you can cut it with a knife. And this rivalry seems to get stronger and stronger every year. You have your Yankees-Mets, Giants-Dodgers, Cubs-White Sox, Rangers and Islanders; I can go on and on. Year in and year out, no matter what position the teams hold in the standings, whether the Yankees are following the Red Sox or the Red Sox are behind the Bombers there is that little bit extra that makes those two team top drawer.
There were several books that were written on the subject in whole or in part. Harvey and Frederic J. Frommer have a hit on their hands maybe even extra bases. Harvey Frommer a baseball and Yankee fan living in New England is an author of over 33 sports books. He teams up once again with his son Frederic J. Frommer, a political author with the Associated Press to share their own experiences and collect scores of others. The put them all together in a beautiful hardcover coffee table book for us all to enjoy. Rarely do I read a book cover to cover in such a small time period but this book leaves you asking for more and more. In all my days I have never seen a book that captured that rivalry they way this one does. This book covers it from every perspective (with a slight slant towards the Yankees).
This book gives a day-by-day, month-by-month, decade-by-decade chronological calendar of every event that built up the friction that exists between these two teams and their fans. It tops it all off with a detailed recap of the 2003 ALCS. It is the ultimate stage for the great competition between the two clubs.
What book on this subject wouldn't cover the 1978 season? This one takes you from when the Yankees trailed the Sox by 14 games in August right through to the Bucky Dent home run in the AL East tiebreaker. It rekindles each and every memory of you have tucked away of that monumental season. It goes into detail of the teams' histories as well as the background of two of the finest Stadiums in baseball history. Behind every great ballpark is a great player (or two dozen) and what two better players exemplify the traditions of their respective teams than Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams? And the Frommers present them both in class fashion.
There is a chapter called the Marker Games, which highlights some of the classic confrontations of the bitter rivals. That brings me to what is my favorite part of the book. It is the recollections of the rivalry by the people that watched, covered and played them. Not only are there celebrities, writers and former players but also there are fans just like you and I. Fans, celebrities and players from both sides of the fence share their memories with us, both happy and not so happy. You will see names like Don Zimmer, Ralph Houk, Willie Randolph, Dwight Evans, Mike Stanley just to name a few of the players and coaches. Politicians like America's Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former governors Mario Cuomo (NY) and Michael Dukakis (Mass), former White House press secretary Ari Fleisher and many more. Best of all there are fans, Boston Fans and New York Fans. It like a good bar argument without the fear of getting beer spilled on you.
And what great photos!! Color, Black and White, Classic, Today, you can spend hours looking at the pictures alone.
This book is a must for Yankees, Red Sox and Baseball fans alike. It will definitely clear away a few of those cobwebs. It will bring out your own stories, make you remember where your were when Bucky Dent hit "the" home run (or if you a Boston fan, Bucky "effing" Dent). I would rate this book in the top five Yankee books that I have read. I suspect the Frommer name might be on a couple more on my list.

Harvey and and his son Frederic Frommer's have written a pictorial and historical masterpiece! This book does the impossible. It heightens and intensifies a rivalry which is already the greatest in all of sports. My late mother who was a Hall of Fame Red Sox Fan would have laughed, cried, and been struck wide-eyed after readng this book.

I especially loved the commentary by the fans and players. After reading the March of Rivalry Timeline in the book my only regret is that I could not travel back to 1918 and stop Harry Frazee from not only selling the Babe to the other world but dismanteling a Red Sox dynasty that may have rivaled what that other team now has.

A beautiful new coffee table book on the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is out, written by Harvey Frommer and Frederic J. Frommer.

For any of us who is a fan of either team, the passion runs deep. It doesn't matter which team is ahead at any point in the season. When the Yanks and Sox play, the rest of us are excited to watch the titans clash. We each have our favorite memory, favorite player, defining play that drew us in deeper to our team. This book not only reinforces why each team is so great, but it gives tons of tidbits that make it fun to rediscover your team.

Being an avid Yankee fan who is married to an avid Red Sox fan, this book is the one common ground we BOTH liked. This book makes an excellent gift to anyone who is a fan of either side. The pictures are phenominal! There's a GREAT one of Jeter & Nomar, among MANY others.

USA TODAY SPORTS WEEKLY,

As the Yankees and Red Sox gear up for more head-to-head battles this summer, zealots on both sides of the rivalry are well-served in this newest tribute to baseball's fiercest feud. The Frommers cover the hostilities from every angle imaginable, giving readers just about all they'll need to know as they settle in for upcoming bouts in 2004. The fun begins with a timeline of the major events that have enlivened the century-long competition, then turns to a comprehensive review of last season's epic playoff series. After a look at the roller-coaster ride of the storied 1978 AL East pennant race, the books follows with chapters on the rivalry's origins, the clashing cultures of the cites, a comparison between the hometown ballparks and capsule summaries of the most significant games. There's even an entire segment devoted to the various virtues of Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio and their roles in the ongoing antagonism. Capping off the retrospectives is an open forum from both New York and Boston advocates. Politicians, sportswriters, entertainers, ordinary fans and the players themselves offer barbed , even witty viewpoints about the rivakly. Their caustic comments should provide more than enough combustion to fire up the Yankee and Sox faithful for this year's remaining games. - -

BASEBALL ALMANAC (...)'Red Sox vs. Yankees is a simply stated, a stunning coffee-table book. We have done extensive research into both franchises, know every fact about every team, but seeing that research in a visual format made for a truly memorable experience. Timelines, statistics, exclusive oral narratives and vintage photos make this team-specific guide a must have book for fans of either the Red Sox, the Yankees or our national pastime.'

(...)of folks can tell you where they were when JFK was shot or the Challenger exploded or what have you--Red Sox and Yankee fans can tell you where they were when Grady Little sent Pedro out to pitch the 8th, or when Dave Righetti pitched a 4th of July no-hitter, or when Bucky 'F'in' Dent hit The Homerun.. For all those fans we highly recommend this new book by Harvey Frommer, a long-time chronicler of the Yankees, and his son, Frederic. They've combined a history of the two teams and their many contests with personal reminiscences--their own and those of players, other fans, and the rich and famous--and a host of terrific photographs to create a kind of scrapbook of the rivalry that some refer to as the American version of Athens (Boston) vs. Sparta (New York). In a book awash with great anecdotes it's hard to pick just one, but here's a Don Zimmer quote from the period when the tension between the two great catchers, Carlton Fisk and Thurman Munson, was as fierce as that between the teams in general: Fisk hated Munson, Munson hated Fisk, and everyone hated Bill Lee. Such hatreds have never been more enjoyable than they are in these pages.

CANADIAN SPORTS COLLECTOR

Both the Yankees and Red Sox are two of sport's storied franchises. Both
have long legacies, but in recent times one is for success, the other for
futility. With the 2004 baseball season underway, the classic rivalry has
never been hotter, especially now that Alex Rodriguez, a commodity pursued
by Boston over the winter, finds himself playing third base in New York.
But how did the rivalry start? The father-son team of Harvey Frommer and
Frederic J. Frommer explore the two teams in Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great
Rivalry, a new 250-page coffee table book from Sports Publishing. The book
uses a delightful mix of history, first-person accounts from those involved
and classic photographs to tell the story of how the Yankees became a
dynasty and the Red Sox became the perennial runner-up. From Ted Williams
and Joe DiMaggio to Derek Jeter and Nomar Garciaparra, Red Sox vs. Yankees
is an informative and entertaining book for fans on either side and even outside of the two teams' alliances.