Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry (Hardcover)

~ Harvey Frommer (Author), Frederic Frommer (Author) "I first stepped into Fenway Park in 1981, arriving hours early during batting practice..." (more)
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Review

"...attention to detail results in an entertaining compendium of anecdotes that provide textured historical perspective for this flourishing rivalry." -- Inside Baseball.com March, 2004

"A beautiful new coffee table book on the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry" -- Providence Journal March, 2004

"A wonderful walk through one hundred years of history between baseball's best rivals." -- DAN SHAUGNESSY, author of Curse of the Bambino

"The best book ever on the subject of the Rivalry." -- WILLIAM C. RHODEN, New York Times

"...attention to detail results in an entertaining compendium of anecdotes that provide textured historical perspective for this flourishing rivalry." -- Inside Baseball.com March, 2004<br /><br />"A beautiful new coffee table book on the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry" -- Providence Journal March, 2004<br /><br />"A wonderful walk through one hundred years of history between baseball's best rivals." -- DAN SHAUGNESSY, author of Curse of the Bambino<br /><br />"The best book ever on the subject of the Rivalry." -- WILLIAM C. RHODEN, New York Times<br /><br />5 Stars...examines it from the points of view of players, politicians, managers, journalists and fans. --VOX of Dartmouth

5 Stars...examines it from the points of view of players, politicians, managers, journalists and fans. -- VOX of Dartmouth

Product Description

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry covers nearly a century's worth of epic battles on and off the baseball field between these age-old rivals. Featuring exclusive interviews with former governors Mario Cuomo of New York and Michael Dukakis of assachusetts, former press secretary Ari Fleischer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, congressmen, reporters, broadcasters, and especially players, coaches, managers and front-office execs from the Red Sox and Yankees including Don Zimmer, Nomar Garciaparra, Derek Lowe, Jason and Jeremy Giambi, Lou Meroni, Dwight Evans, and Theo Epstein.

Two unique features of the book are a Rivalry Timeline and a "Talkin' Rivalry" section, a free-for-all in print among fans, journalists, and players who all have something to say. Other chapters include "Marker Moments," in-depth profiles of Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium.

More than two years in the making, this coffee-table book will have nearly 256 pages of text and more than 125 photos, some in color, some archival. A perfect book for Yankee fans, Red Sox fans, and all baseball fans.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582617678
• ISBN-13: 978-1582617671
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,120,090 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the great history, October 20, 2004

By	taka(Japanese (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nobel Peace Prize neutrality, March 24, 2004

By	Robert Skole (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Don't Make Like that anymore, March 9, 2004

By A Customer

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.