This signature book by the father-son team of Harvey Frommer and Frederic J. Frommer on the "Great Rivalry" features exclusive interviews with former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, former governors Mario Cuomo of New York and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, congressmen, reporters, broadcasters, and especially former and current players, coaches, managers and front-office execs from the Red Sox and Yankees, including Don Zimmer, Theo Epstein, Nomar Garciaparra, Willie Randolph, Derek Lowe, Jason and Jeremy Giambi, Lou Meroni, Dwight Evans, Lou Piniella, Mike Torrez, Johnny Pesky, Phil Rizzuto, Hawk Harrelson, Bob Watson, Ralph Houk, Eddie Yost, Dwight Evans, Chico Walker, Tony Cloninger, Casey Fossum, Steve Karsay, Grady Little, Mike Stanley, Jim Kaat, Jerry Remy, Mel Parnell and more.
(The New York Times) The Babe's marriage had not been the same since he met Claire Merritt Hodgson, a brunette beauty from Athens, Georgia, in 1923 while on his vaudeville tour. In the summer of 1925, Helen and their daughter Dorothy ...
The season was as good as any I have ever seen, the early, seemingly insurmountable Boston lead, the feral, almost ruthless late Yankee surge to reclaim part of first place. One hundred sixty-two games played and both teams dead even ...
The Red Sox and Yankees rivalry is one of the best-known rivalries in sports.
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The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is one of the best-known rivalries in sports.
Offers a tongue-and-cheek look at the history behind the classic baseball rivalry, arguing that each team's fan base has its own philosophy and offering a way for both tribes to peaceably coexist. Original.
And Lee got one. Graig Nettles had been on the field in Boston three years before. I-Ie'd read the newspapers the next morning, digested Lee's pithy quips about Gene Michael and his pocketbook. And he remembered every syllable.
Full of interesting trivia, hilarious history, and inside scoops, the book relates the fantastic stories of legendary Red Sox managers and star players, including Ted Williams, Jim Rice, and David Ortiz, as well as the numerous villains who ...
Longtime baseball writers Tony Massarotti and John Harper tell the tale of two cities in the truest spirit of the rivalry - shouting at each other from opposite sides of press box: Massarotti from Boston, Harper from New York.
For Red Sox fans who had followed the team for any amount of time, the subject of the Yankees was a topic almost too ... Red Sox fans answered this refrain with random, spontaneous chants of “Yankees suck, Yankees suck” at Fenway Park.