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as matt morrison r, the two teams share quite the history. matt: ok, it is not cricket, but there are runs and endings, plenty for british sports fans to enjoy. major league baseball is sending two teams, the new york bonkees and thon red sox, with one s in theldest rivalr worl >> the yankees take on the red sox. matt: think coke versus pepsi or "star wars" versus "star trek," only with more spitting. they are both among baseball's eams, they are faced off in moream than 2000, and each time the fans make it personal. lothe animosity has centered around babe ruth, arguably the oeatest hitter to pick up a bat. sothe retraded the bambino, as he was called, to the yankees after the 1919 season. after that, new york went on to win 26 championshipsan 8-decade stretch. as for boston, it took them another 86 years to get just one. it came to be called the curse of the bbino. there will not be a championship on the line when they square off in london's olympic stadium next year, although plenty of braggi rights are at stake. in a certain sense they ar