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Game of Shadows by Lance Williams, Mark Fainaru-wada (2007, Paperback) 
Game of Shadows by Lance Williams, Mark Fainaru-wada (2007, Paperback)

 
Game of Shadows by Lance Williams, Mark Fainaru-wada (2007, Paperback)

Publisher: Gotham Books
Publication Date: 2007-03-22
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1592402682
ISBN-13: 9781592402687
Product ID: EPID57169859
Description: Asterisks may eventually have to be placed in record books next to statistics for stars such as Barry Bonds and others if the allegations in this compelling sports exposé of the use of steroids in Major League Baseball are proven. Author...
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Synopsis
Asterisks may eventually have to be placed in record books next to statistics for stars such as Barry Bonds and others if the allegations in this compelling sports exposé of the use of steroids in Major League Baseball are proven. Authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams are the reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle who broke the story in 2004, and their reporting is said to have helped convict several employees at BALCO (the company that makes steroids) as well as Bonds's personal trainer. Most importantly, they opened the eyes of a public reluctant to believe that the venerated national pastime was touched by scandal, prompting several days of Congressional committee hearings that were broadcast on television in 2005. In GAME OF SHADOWS, Fainaru-Wada and Williams present the full story, as they see it, of a widespread international scandal that taints many sports, including the Olympics, describing how it affects players, owners, the major leagues, governing bodies, the media, and the general public--and how it threatens the game itself. Photographs.

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Publication Date:2007-03-22

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Length:348 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:11.2 oz

Industry Reviews
"Devastating....[N]ecessary reading for anyone concerned with the steroids era in baseball and track and field and its fallout on sports history."
(03/24/2006)

"Although most of the discussion about this superb read will surely be focused on Bonds...it would be a shame if the discussion stops there. For GAME OF SHADOWS turns the BALCO story into a window on the high-stakes realm of professional sports, where tenths of a second can mean millions in endorsement deals and so-called all-American athletes will do whatever it takes to succeed....[An] important and disturbing book."
(03/23/2006)

"[The book's] real strength comes in the connections it makes between the baseball doping scandal and the wider culture of drugs in international sports."
(05/07/2006)

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