Those Yankees-Royals Series

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Yankees-Royals were part of one of baseball's most intense rivalries.

In the years leading up to Jim Rice’s election to the Hall of Fame, advocates for his candidacy sought to bolster his slightly less than Hall of Fame statistics by arguing that he was the most feared hitter of his era. I never understood that argument. I followed baseball very closely during the entirety of Rice’s career and because the Yankees have alw…