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Boston Red Sox

Fenway Park, the Green Monster, and 86 years of exquisite torment that ended with the most cathartic championship in sports history—the Red Sox are baseball's great romantic tragedy turned triumph, a franchise where suffering became identity and redemption became legend.

Since 1901

Yankees vs. Red Sox

The greatest rivalry in American sports

The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry is the gold standard of American sports feuds. Born in the early days of the American League and supercharged by the sale of Babe Ruth from Boston to New York in 1920, this rivalry has produced more dramatic moments, more heartbreak, and more pure sporting theater than any other. The Curse of the Bambino — the 86-year Red Sox championship drought that followed the Ruth trade — gave the rivalry a mythical quality that transcended sport.