The greatest rivalry in North American professional sports is getting another postseason chapter this week in the Bronx, with the New York Yankees hosting the Boston Red Sox in the best-of-three American League Wild Card Series, which begins on Tuesday night.

It simply does not get much better than this. October baseball in one of the game's great cathedrals, with two bitter enemies playing in the vacuum that is the first to two wins.

The 94-win Yankees, who were on the wrong side of the tiebreaker with the Toronto Blue Jays for the AL East title and the No. 1 seed in the junior circuit, hold the top Wild Card seed, which earned them hosting duties. This is the eighth time in nine years they are in the postseason, and they are keen on taking things one step further after falling short in

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