The 2012 Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees schedule could end up holding a lot of importance to how the American League East will turn out. Despite rough starts for both the Yankees and the Red Sox this year, it would be a mistake for anyone to count out either team.

Trades between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox are now rare, with good reason. As the rivalry between the two franchises heightens, the idea of doing business that may help one team more than another in the end is too unpalatable to be worth risking. The last transaction between these two entities was in 1997, when New York and Boston were involved in an insignificant deal that sent ...

The suburban Boston home where Babe Ruth lived after he had been sent to the New York Yankees is for sale, and the asking price is more than Ruth made in his entire playing career.

What the New York Yankees did to the Boston Red Sox on Saturday, April 21 was not unique, as twice before they had rallied from nine run deficits to beat their arch-nemesis. While this comeback was especially satisfying to New York fans like me -- seeing how Boston handled the Yanks last season -- it was unlike the last time they pulled off such a caper.

(Reuters) - Rain brought the struggling Boston Red Sox some relief on Sunday when their three-game series finale against the New York Yankees was washed out.