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• Amazon Sales Rank: #381374 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 296 pages

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The greatest rivalry in sport?
the historic 2003 American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees served as the climax to perhaps the greatest rivalry in professional sports. Yet, following New York's comeback victory in scintillating Game 7, both the Red Sox and Yankees entered the off-season without a world title--and with renewed conviction to finish the job in 2004.
In "A Tale of Two Cities," respected baseball writers John Harper ("New York Daily News") and Tony Massarotti ("Boston Herald") chronicle the Yankees and Red Sox in parallel story lines through the summer of 2004. The authors take you behind the scenes with the teams, cities, and media during one of the most intense baseball seasons in history.
Beyond the hows and whys of the wins and losses, Massarotti and Harper capture not only the passion the rivalry generates in the two cities, but give readers a look from the inside - what it's like to cover these teams and deal behind the scenes with a temperamental superstar such as Pedro Martinez or an outrageous owner such as George Steinbrenner. Six straight seasons of the Yankees finishing first, the Red Sox second, in the AL East provided the backdrop for growing hostility.
So, as always, both the Red Sox and Yankees entered the 2003 off-season seeing ghosts. To the Yankees those ghosts took the form of aura and mystique, the friendliest of supernatural forces. To the Sox they took the more full-figured form of (who else?) Babe Ruth and the countless spirits who made up his legacy. Some things, it seemed, never changed.
Yet, the storied rivalry continued to grow by the minute. In New York and Boston, after all, the baseball season never really ends so much as a new one begins.