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Any list of the best professional sports rivalries has to include the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, whether that list includes best baseball rivalries, oldest sports rivalries, or most intense rivalries.

In fact, there are some times that it seems as if the rest of the Major League Baseball world gets put on hold whenever the Yankees and Red Sox play ... which means the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry probably also would make the list of rivalries that inspire the most jealousy among fans of other teams.

The Yankees-Red Sox rivalry has plenty of aspects that make it a great rivalry.

Staying power. New York and Boston met for the first time in 1901 and had played 1,774 games entering the 2009 season.

Winning power. The Yankees are Major League Baseball's most successful historical franchise, while, after a long drought, Boston has moved into the top spot in baseball of late with two World Series championships.

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Drama. Whether it was Boston's decision to trade Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919, Bucky Dent's unlikely home run to beat the Red Sox in a single-game playoff in 1978, or the Red Sox rallying from a 3-games-to-0 deficit to overcome decades of frustration and win the 2004 American League Championship Series over the Yankees, New York-Boston games are almost always significant.

Fan animosity. Simply put, Yankees and Red Sox fans don't like each other. Regular-season games in this rivalry are treated almost like post-season games, and losses and wins leading to extreme lows and highs among the fans.

Player animosity. If the Yankees and Red Sox don't clear the benches at least once per season, it's an oddity.

Although New York dominated the rivalry for most of the last century, Boston stepped to the forefront with its improbable 2004 post-season rally against the Yankees. And, as the two teams become more evenly matched and competitive, the rivalry grows in intensity. From 2002 through the early part of the 2009 season, the Yankees and Red Sox are 68-68 against each other.

The early part of the 2009 season was a disaster for the Yankees against the Red Sox. Boston won all three games in Fenway Park in late April and then swept a two-game mid-week series in the new Yankee Stadium in early May. To add insult to injury for the Yankees, the Red Sox veteran pitchers, Josh Beckett and Jon Lester, beat two of New York's top young pitchers in the May games at Yankee Stadium, Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain. The Yankees scored more than four runs only once in the first five meetings, while Boston scored fewer than five runs only once ... and that's with David Ortiz hitting no home runs in any of the five games. Maybe the Yankees will have better luck against the Red Sox once Alex Rodriguez returns from injury.

Before losing the three games in 2009 in Fenway Park, the Yankees had won nine of their last 15 games in Boston.

The Yankees and Red Sox will play a few more times this season:

June 9-11 in Boston, Aug. 6-9 in New York, Aug. 21-23 in Boston, Sept. 25-27 at Yankee Stadium