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

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2006


Synopsis

The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down

For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed their way to Olympic medals and sluggers brought fans back to baseball, sports officials, the media, and fans looked past the rumors and cheered on the athletes to ever-higher levels of performance. Then, in December 2004, San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams broke the story of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, a tiny nutritional supplement company that, according to sworn testimony, was supplying elite athletes with banned drugs. The stories shocked the nation and the exposés led to congressional hearings on baseball's drug problems and a revived effort to purge the U.S. Olympic movement of drug cheats.

Now, in GAME OF SHADOWS, Fainaru-Wada and Williams tell the complete story of BALCO and the investigation that has shaken the foundations of the sporting world. And at the center of the story is the biggest star of them all, Barry Bonds, the muscle-bound MVP outfielder for the San Francisco Giants whose suspicious late-career renaissance has him threatening Hank Aaron’s all-time home run record.

Shocking, revelatory, and riveting, GAME OF SHADOWS casts light into the shadows of American sports to reveal the dark truths at the heart of the game today.


From the Compact Disc edition.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Andre Wade on 2017-03-04 15:52:02

This book is very in-depth about BALCO, it's founder Victor Conte and his network of athletes, coaches and drug dealers that cheated their way to success. It is very interesting to learn of the cheating techniques and how BALCO was eventually taken down. I really enjoyed listening to this book, which is very well written.