Showdowns, The Top 20 Rivalries in the Past 20 Years by Jeremy Roberts; 2008; Pocket Books, New York, NY; 202 pages; 978-1-4165-9173-3; 3/3/09-3/4/09

This is not great literature or great art we are talking about or even great sports stories, this is sports entertainment. This would have been a better idea for a DVD than a book, as some of the things are best expressed by watching them.  Trying to explain the action, it loses much of it’s emotion and excitment when reduced to words on the page.  The book doesn’t focus on individual matches but feuds that took place over months and many matches.  It was fun to recall, but the fun was not in the reading but the recalling of the emotions of watching the matches.  RR