Review — Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal

October 14, 2006

<p><span face=”Verdana”><em><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=500,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/shadows.jpg”><img title=”Shadows” height=”150″ alt=”Shadows” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/shadows.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a> Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal</em>, </span><span face=”Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif”>by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams</span></p>

<p><span face=”Verdana”>&quot;Shortly after Jose Canseco’s tell-all Juiced came out in 2005, with allegations of rampant steroid use, the House of Representatives held hearings on the situation. Among the players interviewed by the committee were Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, and ex-big leaguer Mark McGuire, who broke Roger Maris’s single season mark of 61 home runs in 1998 (eclipsed by Barry Bonds’s 73 a few years later).&quot;</span></p>

<p><a href=”http://bookreporter.com/reviews2/1592401996.asp”>Read the full review from Bookreporter.com</a>.</p>

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