Red Sox History: Reviving bad memories of Red Sox – Yankees duels
By Rick McNair
Yankees take Red Sox to the woodshed too often
The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees will face off with a three-game set. If a home-field advantage exists, it goes to Boston as the lyrical ballyard will be bustling with the games. Let’s juice up the hyperbole. A step back to darker days.
The Red Sox are in Red Barber’s famed catbird seat regarding the Wild Card. A thin lead over Toronto and New York as the season will soon finish off. They control their destiny, but this harkens back to the past when a New York series was met with as much trepidation as a colonoscopy exam.
The bully boys from the Bronx had sand kicked in their face in 2004 with an outrageous and historic comeback by the Red Sox. That catapulted Boston into extinguishing an 86 year curse. This has been Boston’s century with four championships.
Now take a trip back to less fortuitous times when New York took the Hub boys to the baseball woodshed in important games. This may or may not be a revisit to those more painful times in Red Sox history.