Some more fodder for an unexpected double off day (rainouts)
Baseball’s best Rivalries (Forbes magazine)
Absurd as it seems, Yankees-Red Sox tickets are no longer difficult to come by. Not long ago, scalpers charged the Bronx faithful epic markups for the benefit of a seat in the stadium. Now, if you log on to the Yankees’ Web site or walk up to the ticket window, you can get seats in almost any section. Another rivalry fallen into decline.
The top distinction belongs to the bi-coastal San Francisco Giants-Los Angeles Dodgers feud, which began as an inter-borough sauce back when the Giants played in Uptown Manhattan and the Dodgers in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
To calculate our list, we looked at every season since 1950 and tabulated how many times the two clubs had finished first and second in their division and how often they’d finished the season within five games of one another. Weighted equally with those two stats in our methodology is how much the meetings matter to fans–in other words, how much extra money people are willing to pay for a ticket.
The Giants played in Manhattan? Really, who knew? They never mention that at Citi Field.
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