Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred Year Rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse - Hardcover

Vaccaro, Mike

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385513542 ISBN 13: 9780385513548

Publisher: Doubleday, 2005

Synopsis

A veteran sports columnist journeys inside the contentious rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to offer a behind-the-scenes look at the legendary competition between the two teams and their ardent fans, examining the origins and history of the teams and their notorious conflict over nearly a century. 75,000 first printing.

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About the Author

MIKE VACCARO is a senior sports columnist for the New York Post. He has won more than fifty major journalism awards since 1989 and has been cited for distinguished writing by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the New York State Publishers Association, and the Poynter Institute. He lives in New Jersey.

From the Inside Flap

The contention between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox goes on and on and on. Even the most casual of baseball watchers was riveted by the battle for the American League pennant in 2003, reacting with either gleeful elation or grim despair as little-known Yankee third baseman Aaron Boone hit a homer in the early-morning hours of an extra-inning game to send New York to yet another World Series and the Red Sox once again packing for a long winter.

Mike Vaccaro covered that game and hundreds of other explosive Yankees-Red Sox confrontations. In DAMN YANKEES, DAMNED SOX, the veteran sports columnist uses the 2003 play-offs as a starting point for a thorough, and thoroughly balanced, journey into the legendary rivalry between the teams. He examines the seeds of the animosity, its most recent manifestations, and everything in between. Did the fierce competition begin with the Red Sox s sale of Babe Ruth in 1919 (widely believed to have triggered the notorious Curse of the Bambino ) or did the sweet ring of East Coast rivalry exist long before? Did it resonate loudest through Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio in their remarkable, head-to-head, record-setting 1941 seasons or at the climax of the October 1978 series, when Bucky Dent hit his famous homer over Fenway Park s Green Monster to ruin another Red Sox season?

No other baseball teams have had the extensive national followings that the Yankees and the Red Sox share. Vaccaro s in-depth, energetic, and incredibly knowledgeable history is bound to be a big, countrywide hit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385513542
• ISBN 13: 9780385513548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364