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Authors thank Mitchell Report

December 18, 2007

As could be expected, the release of the Mitchell Report has nudged publisher Gotham/Dutton to rev up the press for a new run of Game of Shadows, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. Read the Publishers Weekly item. Gotham publicist Beth Parker said the authors will team up to do a radio satellite book tour… […]

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There was a scene in the movie version of Eight Men Out in which Albert Austrian, head of the Black Sox’ team of lawyers, describes his colleagues. “Their names may not sound familiar, but I’d say that these men are the Ty Cobb, the Tris Speaker, and the Zack Wheat of the legal world.” Buck […]

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According to a report in Variety, Ron Shelton, who brought the baseball classic Bull Durham to the big screen, has been signed to turn Game of Shadows, the expose on Barry Bonds and steroids,  into a HBO project. Shelton will write the script with his “Tin Cup” writing partner John Norville as soon as the […]

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Bonds

November 16, 2007

Sorry, you won’t find much here. There are writers far more up on the subject of Barry Bonds, indictments, steroids, ethics, etc. Suffice it to say that there will be at least one book out in the very near future. Fainaru-Wada and Williams will make the talk show circuit again, which will have the consequent […]

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Fainaru-Wada joins ESPN

November 13, 2007

Mark Fainaru-Wada, who with Lance Williams wrote the devastating indictment of Barry Bonds and the steroid issue, will join the staff of ESPN, according to a report on Marketwatch,com. Fainaru-Wada leaves his job at The San Francisco Chronicle where he co-wrote Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroid Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports. […]

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