Mickey Rivers was a dirt-bag degenerate gambler who had the nerve to ask for a raise on a post-game show after winning MVP of a nationally televised Saturday Game of the Week, because he had squandered his entire year's pay at the track and he was out of money. When the rivalry was heating up, fans at Yankee stadium were throwing batteries at the Red Sox OFers. When the Yankees went to Fenway, legend has it that Rivers got nailed in the arm with game dart. It was 1976 when the "Red Sox Suck" chant started at Yankee Stadium, and I went to high school with the douche bag who started the chant that night. Of course the Fenway faithful were not to be outdone.