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Later today, the Red Sox will stroll out of the visitor's dugout and face the Yankees for the final time at venerable Yankee Stadium. There will be other goodbyes to the House That Ruth Built in the coming weeks, but with the Bronx Bombers a major longshot to play into October, this series seems to have taken on special significance.

Here are a dozen of the finest moments in the best rivalry in American sports, all of which took place at Yankee Stadium. Even Red Sox fans have to be feeling a little nostalgic about their team's final visit. After all, the franchise's finest hour took place there.

1. Oct. 16, 2003: The ghosts strike one last time. After Red Sox manager Grady Little leaves Pedro Martinez in well past the 100-pitch mark with a 5-2 lead in the eighth inning, the Yankees rally to force extra innings. In the 11th, Aaron Boone sends a deep fly into the Bronx night, sending New York to the World Series and crushing Boston's dreams of ending the Curse of the Bambino again.

Let's face it, you don't get nicknamed "Spaceman" because you have a great fastball. Ex-Red Sox Bill Lee was more famous for his off-field antics than for most of what he did on the field in his major league career. He jogged home to Belmont after games he pitched in Fenway, he protested air pollution by showing up dressed as an astronaut, and he even developed his own pitch - the Leephus Pitch - a variation of the high-arcing Eephus Pitch. And like any good Red Sox soldier, he separated his shoulder in a brawl with the Yankees. Enjoy the Spaceman here in one of his not-so-famous television commercials.