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Summary: Are there any real reviews in here?
Review: It's unfortunate the publisher's marketing department and friends and family of the authors (based in St. Louis perhaps?) have crammed in their marketing blurbs where people are looking for genuine insights. I'm not sure what this book adds to this historic rivalry other than some nice pictures and comments from famous people.Pick up "Red Sox Century" or "The Teammates", or "Summer of '49" for a good Red Sox book. This is not worth your time.
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Summary: ---------SHOULD BE THE LAST WORD ON THE SUBJECT!!
Review: KOMA-AM, Oklahoma City (FOX Sports Radio New Mexico)
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Super production job. Incredible photos, many never seen before.
Super infomation on Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park, marker moments in the rivalry, persdonalities, oral history.
So many details from the father-son team of Harvey Frommer and Fred Frommer. Such enthusiasm for the topic. It is such an affordable book and the reader gets so much for the price.
RED SOX/YANKEES: THE GREAT RIVALRY is the kind of book you want to buy and put on your coffee table and pick up and refer to again and again.
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Summary: Nobel Peace Prize neutrality
Review: 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.
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Summary: The Don't Make Like that anymore
Review: 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.
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Summary: An REAL Stinker
Review: Oh yeah, like I really want to hear what Mike Dukakis and George Bush's press secretary have to say about the Red Sox and Yankees. Please. Most of this book is just an updated version of a similar title published years ago, the rest is pretty slap-dash, a quickie book trying to take advantage of recent events. There's nothing new for real fans of either team.
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Summary: New Jersey.Com: FABULOUS READING!!!!
Review: On the Bookshelf, just released Red Sox vs. Yankees; The Great Rivalry By renowned Sport Authors Harvey & Frederic Frommer has just been released. It covers nearly a 100 years worth of historic Red Sox - Yankees rivalry right through the 2003 ALCS. For the content to be any fresher they would have to come to your house and update it after the game on Sunday.
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Summary: FOR ALL BASEBALL FANS ,SPECIAL READING PLEASURE
Review: Perfect for fans of the Bronx OR Beantown Bombers!'
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Summary: our Thucydides
Review: Plenty 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.
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Summary: Red Sox vs Yankees The Great Rivalry
Review: RED SOX VS YANKEES
The Great Rivalry The 2004 baseball season promises to be one of the hottest, most exciting sessions to date. No matter how torrid this years competition, it may be topped by enthusiasm over the latest Frommer Sports Book "THE GREAT RIVALRY - RED SOX VS YANKEES" Composed by Harvey Frommer and his talented AP journalist son Frederick Frommer, the book contains contributions from many famous players and fans, as well as unknown, retired folks watching baseball from a hill in Lyme, NH. Harvey claims it to be a coffee table book but it will not spend much time on the coffee table, as everyone who glimpses the cover picture of a young Ted Williams chatting with an equally young Joe DiMaggio will pick it up. The book is alive with pictures from the antique black and whites of the early years to those obviously captured by the latest in digital equipment, many of the photos from the archives of the Frommers. Chapter one "March of Rivalry Time" begins with the birth of Babe Ruth in 1895, continues through the heartbreaking Red Sox defeat by the Yankees in the seventh game of the 2003 American League Championship, and includes the glorious defeat of the Yankees by the Florida Marlins in October. "Talking Rivalry" is the caption of chapter nine. This is the section containing comments and memories of the rivalry contributed by such personalities as the governors of MA and NY, the mayors of Boston and New York City, stars and owners of both teams as well as "sound bites" of just ordinary, dedicated fans like my husband and I. Between the first and ninth chapters is the nitty-gritty of Red Sox/Yankee baseball. There one will find enough stories and magnificent pictures to fill all the rainy days for an entire season, with pure baseball pleasure. I recommend that any two-fan (or more) household should buy multiple books to prevent excessive family competition. Joan W. Astley
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Summary: HOT TOPIC AND RIVETING READING
Review: The father and son team of Harvey and Fred Frommer have hit a home run. This is a book to browse, to look up stuff, to enjoy, to settle arguments with. It is filled with all kinds of info on the Red Sox of Boston and the Yankees of New York. There is a "Talkin'Rivalry" section that just breaks me up - - it's like a fight in print with politicos, fans, players, managers, coaches - - all having their say.
GO FOR IT!
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