Game of Shadows Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports

Name: Game of Shadows Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports
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ISBN: 9781592402687

ISBN-10: 1592402682

ISBN-13: 9781592402687

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Authors: Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams

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The blockbuster New York Timesbestseller that caused a media firestorm and stayed in the headlines for weeks at last arrives in paperbackwith a new afterword about the Barry Bonds perjury investigation. This is the complete inside story of the BALCO steroids scandal from the award-winning reporters who broke the news nationally. In the summer of 1998, as baseball was still struggling to regain popularity lost during the contentious 1994 players strike that caused the World Series to be canceled, a race to break the home-run record transfixed the nation. Over the next three seasons, baseball players across the country hit home runs at unprecedented rates. Although sportswriters pointed to…

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List price: $15.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.98" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

MARK FAINARU-WADA and LANCE WILLIAMS are investigative reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle. After fifteen months of covering steroid use in sports, in December 2004 they reported in the Chronicle on the secret grand jury testimony of pro baseball players Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds, making headlines around the world. Fainaru- Wada and Williams won the Dick Schaap Excellence in Sports Journalism Award, the George Polk Award, and the White House Correspondents Associations Edgar A. Poe Award for their reporting.



Prologue



Cheat or Lose



The Investigation



The Most Wanted Man in America


Epilogue


Afterword



Bonds and Steroids



Bonds's Numbers


Source Notes


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Index