Roger Clemens and Mike Piazza. Perhaps no other player against player rivalry is better than the one between Clemens and Piazza. Both were playing for New York then as Clemens played for the New York Yankees and Piazza played for the New York Mets.

When that rivalry was over, MLB Baseball was left without any dramatic and emotional battle like the one they had in the Clemens-Piazza chapter. Of course, once can claim the Derek Jeter � Alex Rodriguez story may be worth your while but they’re teammates so I guess we’ll just have to wait when A-Rod gets out of New York.

For what it’s worth, there’s a new international rivalry brewing between the Seattle Mariners slugger Ichiro Suzuki and Boston Red Sox power pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka. They’re both Japanese so every single time the Red Sox and the Mariners dance, you bet Japan will be watching.

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Derek Sanderson Jeter (born June 26, 1974) is an American Major League Baseball player. Jeter is a seven-time All-Star shortstop and currently the captain of the New York Yankees.
Jeter has spent his entire career with the New York Yankees, starting in 1995 when he was 20 years old. He has won the American League Rookie of the Year Award, the All-Star Game MVP Award, the World Series MVP Award, a Silver Slugger Award and three Gold Glove Awards. His .318 career batting average through the 2006 season ranks him with the 6th highest lifetime batting average of all active baseball players. He has been in the top seven in the American League in both hits and runs scored for nine of the past ten years. So far in the 2000s he is third in the major leagues in hits (927), sixth in runs (551), and fifteenth in batting average (.311).

Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964 in Riverside, California) is a Major League left fielder for the San Francisco Giants. He is the son of former Major League All-Star Bobby Bonds, cousin of Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, and the godson of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
Through May 27, 2007, when he hit his 746th home run (against Denver), Bonds is the all-time major league leader in career walks (2,454) and intentional walks (656). He is 2nd in career home runs with 746, trailing only Hank Aaron who hit 755; Bonds also ranks 2nd in extra base hits (1,412), 3rd in at bats per home run (13.0), 4th in RBI’s (1955), 5th in total bases (5,842) and runs (2,175), 6th in on base percentage (.444), and slugging average (.610).

Alexander Enmanuel "Alex" Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975, in New York, New York), commonly nicknamed A-Rod, is a Dominican-American baseball player, widely regarded as one of the best in the history of the game. [1] He is the starting third baseman for the New York Yankees, having played shortstop for the Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners.
Since 1996 (his first full season) through 2006 he leads the major leagues in home runs (HR), runs scored, runs batted in (RBI), total bases and extra-base hits. Of all players in baseball history at age 30, he is first all-time in both HR and runs scored, 2nd in total bases and extra base hits, 3rd in RBI, and 4th in hits. In his career to that point, Rodriguez had more HR, more RBI, more runs scored, and more base hits than all-time leaders Hank Aaron (HR and RBI), Rickey Henderson (runs scored), and Pete Rose (hits) did prior to their 30th birthdays.

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Cincy deserves this fun, successful Reds team

Publish Date: September 2, 2010

It’s great to be a baseball fan in Cincinnati again. The Reds are young, talented, fun and comfortably ahead in the NL Central. This long-suffering fan base deserves every second of this, Gregg Doyel says.

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Pettitte, Burnett main bump in Yanks’ road to glory

Publish Date: September 2, 2010

It’s hard to criticize the Yankees. They sit atop the AL East as well as own the best record in the majors. However, Danny Knobler says glaring issues loom around their rotation, particularly A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte.

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CC earns win No. 19 as Yanks 1-hit A’s for sweep

Publish Date: September 2, 2010

CC Sabathia pitched one-hit ball for eight innings to earn his major league-leading 19th win, fill-in Curtis Granderson homered twice and the New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 5-0 Thursday for a four-game sweep.

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Ford, family settle suit in death of Mets’ prospect

Publish Date: September 2, 2010

Ford Motor Co. on Thursday settled a Mississippi lawsuit over a 2001 accident in which New York Mets prospect Brian Cole was killed when his SUV crashed in the Florida Panhandle, a lawyer for the player’s family said.

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