During last years trade deadline the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox made a rare trade that sent Kelly Johnson over to ‘Beantown’ in exchange for Stephen Drew. Before that, the two rivals hadn’t completed a trade since 1997, and before that it was 1994.
Of course the one trade that everyone always talks about between the two clubs dates all the way back to December 26th, 1919 when the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees, but for as long as they’ve been rivals, the thought of the two teams exchanging players with one another is nearly sacrilegious.