Clarke Canfield is a former longtime New England journalist, reporter for The Associated Press, and the author of Those Damned Yankees, The Not-So-Great History of Baseball's Evil Empire.
Canfield worked as a journalist at several daily newspapers, including the Blytheville Courier News in Arkansas, the Nashville Banner in Tennessee, and the Portland Press Herald in Maine.
In 2013 Canfield began work as the Director of Communications at Southern Maine Community College, where he is still employed today.
A compilation of short stories and essays by the likes of Dale Arnold of WEEI radio, Tom Caron of NESN, former Red Sox pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee, and more, the book compounds the intense hatred of the Yankees by those both in and out of Red-Sox Nation.
Canfield included every disastrous detail, from the team's horrible trades and blowout losses to the player's behavior and crushing World Series defeats.