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Tom asked in SportsBaseball · 10 years ago

Which rivalry is the best?

Which NON-divisional rivalry is best in the NL and the AL? Before the current 3 division system, MLB had an East & West division system with balanced schedules. This allowed teams to develop a love/hate relationship with each other and rivalries were just a natural part of those relationships. Now that there are 3 divisions and unbalanced schedules, a lot of these teams only play each other 6 or 7 times a year. While playing time against each other for these teams has gone down, an old rivalry aura still exists. Which teams do you think have the best rivalry now that aren't in the same division?

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  • 10 years ago
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    I would say that from American League to National league, the biggest rivalry would be the Red Sox and Phillies, especially now, as they are on the top of their respective leagues.

  • 10 years ago

    Tough call. Historically, I would say some of the best of all time were:

    NY Giants / Philadelphia Athletics

    NY Yankees / Brooklyn-LA Dodgers

    St. Louis Cardinals / Chicago Cubs (doesn't apply to your question today, as they are in the same division, but dating back to before divisions, it was still a great rivalry).

    In the more modern era, I would say St. Louis / NY Mets. They had some great battles in the 1980s, which was revisited in 2000 and 2006.

  • 10 years ago

    Mets - Cardinals.

    When the Dodgers were in Brooklyn, their biggest rivalry other than with the NY Giants was with St. Louis, because of pennant races with them in the 40s, and the tape measure HRs that Musial used to hit in Ebbets Field. After the move to CA, and the Mets entering the league in 1962, their next biggest rival (other than vs. Giants and Dodgers) was with St Louis.

    This peaked in 1985, 1986, and 1987, and again in 2000 and 2006, and I heard Ozzie Smith and Keith Hernandez once say that this rival actually raised each team to a higher level, and, as a Mets fan, in my opinion, it was better than any other NL rivalry in the last 30 years. The Dodgers- Giants rivalry in CA is a watered down version of what it was in NY in the 20's through the 50's, and I don't see the Cubs-Cardinals as a major rivalry.

  • 10 years ago

    Phillies vs Yankees.

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    4 years ago

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  • 10 years ago

    Giants and Yankees have a historic rivalry, dating back to when the Giants were still in New York. But, I'd have to say Giants-A's. A rivalry without violence. There you go.

  • Battle of the Bay Giants vs A's

  • ?
    Lv 5
    10 years ago

    Red Sox vs. Indians. They played bean ball last year and might do it again in the future.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    White sox vs cubs

    Red sox vs angels

    Mets vs yankees

    Phillies vs yankees

  • 10 years ago

    Cardinals/Mets, people from New York still don't want to admit that Yadier Molina beat them in game 7.

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