It’s a different kind of rivalry than, say, the one against the Red Sox.
The first one, no surprise, was — as they may have described it in 1941 — a real humdinger, 68,540 people cramming into old Yankee Stadium for Game 1 of the ’41 World Series.
Larry MacPhail had hired Leo “The Lip” Durocher and had begun building a legitimate outfit in Brooklyn, which hadn’t won a pennant in 21 years. “Even now, when I see their uniforms, I get excited because it means it’s a big game,” Whitey Ford told me on the field at Yankee Stadium in 2013, before the first time the Dodgers played a regular-season game against the Yankees in The Bronx. “It makes me want to put on a uniform.”
Strangely, however the quirks of the old scheduling worked, the Yankees have actually played the Dodgers fewer times in the regular season than any other team. Of course, it isn’t those 16 games that has built this rivalry.
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