November 25, 2003 For more information: Frank R. Scatoni 619-807-1887 frank@ventureliterary.com "No Kill Date" Venture Literary Sells Lead New York Post Sports Columnist’s In-Depth Look at the Yankees–Red Sox Rivalry to Doubleday On November 25, 2003, Greg Dinkin and Frank R. Scatoni of Venture Literary, representing Mike Vaccaro, lead sports columnist for the New York Post, sold North American rights to Damn Yankees, Damned Sox: Inside America’s Most Fascinating Rivalry to Executive Editor Jason Kaufman at Doubleday. Aaron Bleeping Boone has now replaced Bucky Bleeping Dent in the most recent installment of baseball’s version of the Montagues and the Capulets—Yanks vs. Red Sox, the most intense, violent, and utterly stupefying rivalry in all of sports. And it shows no signs of slowing down. The downright hate that Red Sox Nation feels for the Evil Empire—as if it were possible—has only intensified, thanks to the theater of the absurd that was the 2003 ALCS. In Damn Yankees, Damned Sox, award-winning journalist Mike Vaccaro examines two teams, two towns, two destinies, and two sets of citizens that comprise the most fascinating, most heated, and most arresting rivalry in the history of professional sports. Vaccaro will use the 2003 ALCS as a prism for telling the story of the Red Sox and the Yankees. He will give life to the ache that has filled Red Sox Nation for eighty-four years, and the superior confidence—some would call it arrogance—that defines the Yankees’ perspective in this rivalry. Vaccaro uses this series as a roadmap to all that came before, telling the story of these two teams, and their interwoven histories, from the sale of Babe Ruth right up to the moment Tim Wakefield’s knuckler met Aaron Boone’s lumber. He’ll tell it through the eyes of players on either side, through the hearts of fans of both teams, and through the recollections of so many of the characters who have made Red Sox–Yankees what it is today, and what it will remain forever: the best theater in all of sports. Mike Vaccaro is one of the most widely read columnists in the nation. He has won more than fifty major journalism awards since 1989, and has been cited for distinguished writing by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the New York State Publishers Association, and the Poynter Institute. To learn more about Venture Literary, visit: www.ventureliterary.com. To learn more about Doubleday, visit: http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/.