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The rivalry between the Red Sox and Yankees is one of the fiercest in sports, and has only grown in the last decade as the Red Sox and Yankees have consistently had talented, winning teams. In New England, the team’s popularity is unrivaled, its fans as impassioned as any in the United States, and home games at Fenway Park, baseball’s oldest stadium, with a tall wall in left field known as the Green Monster, have been sold out since May 2003.
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Red Sox fans refer to 1967 as the year of the "Impossible Dream." The slogan refers to the hit song from the popular musical play "Man of La Mancha." The 1967 season is remembered as one of the great pennant races in baseball history because four teams were in the AL pennant race until almost the last game. The team had finished the 1966 season in ninth place, but they found new life with Yastrzemski as the team went to the 1967 World Series. Yastrzemski won the American League Triple Crown (the most recent player to accomplish such a feat) and put forth what is considered one of the best seasons in baseball history. But the Red Sox lost the series — again to the St. Louis Cardinals, in seven games.
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Red Sox fans, who have come to know Fenway as "America's Most Beloved Ballpark," have sold out 226 consecutive regular-season games, the second-longest streak in Major League Baseball history. The Sox rewarded fans by compiling a Major League-best 54-27 home mark in 2005, while the team sold a record 2,847,888 tickets in the process. The club has ... established attendance records each of the past six seasons.
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The Red Sox were chosen by Sports Illustrated as that magazine's Sportsmen of the Year. They are the first professional sports team to be chosen, and the only other teams to be chosen were the 1999 U.S. Women's soccer team and the 1980 'Miracle on Ice' U.S. Olympic hockey team.
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In the 2003 American League Division Series, the Red Sox rallied from a 0-2 series deficit against the Oakland Athletics to win the best-of-five series. Derek Lowe, who had become a starter after several years as a relief pitcher, returned to his former role to save Game 5, a 4-3 victory, by striking out the A's Terrence Long with the tying run on third base. The team then faced the New York Yankees in the 2003 American League Championship Series. In the deciding seventh game, Boston led 5-2 in the eighth inning, but Pedro Martínez, who was still pitching into the 8th inning, allowed three runs to tie the game, including a two-run bloop double by Jorge Posada. The Red Sox could not score off Mariano Rivera over the last three innings and eventually lost the game 6-5 when Yankee third baseman Aaron Boone hit a solo home run off Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield.
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The newspaper reports that "Twins officials over the weekend maintained that all three teams remain interested in Santana," disputing previous speculation that the Red Sox took Jon Lester off the table. Some reports have suggested that the Yankees have taken Phil Hughes off the table, which would make it nearly impossible for them to acquire Santana.
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