Scarecrow Press
Pages: 238
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8108-9175-3 • Hardback • July 2013 • $104.00 • (£80.00)
978-0-8108-9176-0 • eBook • July 2013 • $98.50 • (£76.00)
Matthew De George is a reporter for the Delaware County Daily Times, for which he covers live events, including the 2012 U.S. Olympic swim trials and other sports. De George was previously a contributor to SportsGrid.com.
[The book] is more of a chronology of confrontations, sporting or otherwise, spanning almost 80 years, than a detailed, scholarly analysis. Yet it is precisely because of this that the book succeeds in demonstrating the potential interest and limitations of rivalry as an analytical concept.
— Sport in History