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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 23, Dave rated it it was ok. As far as the investigation goes the authors did a solid job, but there is a lot of exaggeration and a number of baseless assertions and counterfactual claims that harm the book. The authors repeatedly claim Bonds was the best hitter ever.
By any objective statistical analysis this is not true. The authors claim synthol is a drug that expands the muscle. It is neither a drug nor does it expand the muscle. It's an injectable oil that sits on top of the muscle.
Think saline implants. Look up Gregg As far as the investigation goes the authors did a solid job, but there is a lot of exaggeration and a number of baseless assertions and counterfactual claims that harm the book.
Look up Gregg Valentino to see how ridiculous it makes someone appear. There are a number of parallels between Bonds and ARod - talented assholes hated by rivals and teammates alike, both of whom turned to a steroid dealer in a non-descript building to improve their performance through better chemistry.
Bonds is worse by most accounts, in that he's a racist and possibly abusive toward women, though it's hard to feel any pity for his girlfriend Kimberly Bell, seeing as how she knew he was married and then basically sued him because he refused to buy her a house. In any case, 3 takeaways - 1. The reasons society seems OK with football players and bodybuilders taking steroids and HGH is because almost everyone in the sport is on it.
It's a level playing field and therefore fair. This was not the case in baseball, as Griffey on drugs would have likely hit 80 home runs and Ruth, had steroids existed in his day, would have more than These numbers are based on the comparison of their drug-free home run totals compared to the league during their respective time frames. So for Bonds to be remembered as a better player than those he was statistically less than before he began doping harms the integrity of the sport.
Bonds never won a damn thing and even though he finally stopped choking at the plate in the playoffs in he still managed to boot a ball in crunch time as his team blew a lead in the 7th inning on Game 6. After Bonds left the Giants won two World Series in five years with dominant pitching, a star offensive player who is as wholesome and upstanding as they come, as well as a large collection of hitters who had been cut from other teams.
The team was simply better without Barry. Because without an unlevel playing field, that's what he was. View 2 comments. Feb 04, George Bradford rated it really liked it Shelves: villains , america , sports. If Barry Bonds had retired at the end of the major league baseball season he would have been a first ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Barry Bonds was the greatest outfielder of his generation.
In the field his extraordinary arm was matched by his spectacular defensive range. At the plate he hit for both power and average. And on the base path he could steal and advance at will. As the authors note, Barry Bonds thought he was a better baseball player than every basebal If Barry Bonds had retired at the end of the major league baseball season he would have been a first ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in As the authors note, Barry Bonds thought he was a better baseball player than every baseball player he ever met.
And in most cases he was right. At the end of the season Barry Bonds was 34 years old. During the major league season Barry Bonds watched two of his fellow players -- Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa -- wage a season long home run derby in pursuit of Roger Maris' single season home run record.
In Roger Maris hit 61 home runs to break Babe Ruth's record 60 home runs during the season. Ruth's record had stood for 34 years. Maris' record would stand for 37 years.
And as baseball fans feted McGwire and Sosa as genuine heroes -- and the national media proclaimed them the saviors of baseball -- the greatest outfielder of his generation seethed. Barry Bonds was 34 years old. He'd never hit more than 46 home runs in a single season five years earlier in And in his anger he decided he would do whatever it took to show the world he was the best home run hitter to ever play the game.
In his own words, Barry Bonds would "take the shit. First, there was phenomenal athletic success. Second, there was the discovery of the cheating and the resulting consequences. Using a suite of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone Barry Bonds transformed himself -- literally and figuratively -- into the best home run hitter to ever play the game. Over the next six seasons, from to , Bonds would average an unprecedented 50 home runs per season.
In he'd hit 73 home runs to break McGwire's single season record that had stood for a mere three years. And over those six seasons -- all after age 35 -- Barry Bonds physically grew at an alarming rate. What did Barry Bonds mean in when he said he would "take the shit"? And what, ultimately, were the consequences of his decision? And the answers involve more than 'the cream,' 'the clear,' THG, EPO, human growth hormone and Barry Bonds' mission to claim every home run record in baseball history.
It's an intriguing story with colorful 'criminals' like Victor Conte, Greg Anderson and Remi Korchemny and the underground scientists who produce undetectable anabolic steroids. And their coaches and trainers.
And their employers. There are straight arrow Boy Scout federal agents, scientists and anti-doping crusaders earnestly seeking to clean things up. There are politicians who talk out of both sides of their mouth, want it both ways and cause more harm than good.
There are grieving parents who've lost their children to steroid abuse children following the example set by their athletic role models. And it's all rounded out by an ensemble cast of journalists, attorneys and judges. The story is not a pleasant one. It's dirty. And it's genuinely heartbreaking. But he didn't. Driven by a furious anger Barry Bonds decide to "take the shit" in order to hit as many home runs as possible. He succeeded. And in doing so the greatest outfielder of his generation guaranteed he will never be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Aug 04, Tom Barber rated it liked it. As a baseball fan, I was very interested in the information in this book. Among other things, it is the story of how Major League Baseball and the Players Union absolutely failed to address a pervasive problem in the sport.
It also tells the amazing story of Barry Bonds--amazing because of just how incredibly egocentric, brusque, foolish and just mean-spirited he was and is, I suspect. The book tells two parallel stories--one concerning baseball and another about track and field. Track comes aw As a baseball fan, I was very interested in the information in this book. Track comes away looking much better because cheating athletes were actually given suspensions prior to the Olympics, whereas no baseball players were suspended or indicted at the time of these investigations.
The authors are reporters for the SF Chronicle and the book reads a little like a collection of articles. It is extremely well researched and while it is not poorly written, it does lack the flow and cohesiveness that a masterful writer would have given it. Sep 28, Jim Patton rated it really liked it. Way better than I thought it would be. I thought this would be a boring petty crime story, but turned out to be well written and in depth on the shady side of Bonds and other track athletes.
It was shocking to hear how much trust they out in to Conte and took his 'supplements' without any real medical advice. And for these folks, their body is their entire source of income. Feb 18, Cody rated it it was amazing. My only regret is that I didn't read this book sooner. It made me rethink a lot of my opinions about not only the baseball players I grew up admiring, but athletes as a whole. While the scandal is many years removed, it still remains an insightful and relevant read for any baseball fan.
Jan 11, Shawn Stone rated it it was amazing Shelves: sports-misc , performance-enhancement. Some of the confessions were grudging and evasive.
Others were extremely forthcoming. It came down to the same thing: Competitive sports, it turned out, was part mirage, a game of shadows. Most dismissed his rantings as the fabricated last remonstrations from a former bitter player destined to fade into obscurity. However it proved to be poignant forewarning to the coming storm that was to rock baseball to its very foundations.
Bonds knew McGwire was receiving a pharmaceutical edge and committed himself to levelling the playing field. Enter Victor Conte; a shameless self promoter who reinvented himself from failed musician to supplement shill, turned drug dealer to the stars. Like a modern day mad scientist, Conte and his BALCO entourage were committed to creating a chemical Frankenstein possesed with the prowess of a sporting Superman.
Despite the tainted records and public and political outcry, Wada and Williams show evidence of the tacit conspiracy existing between team owners, trainers and the powers that be who themselves look the other way as long as the cash registers keep ringing up their own record-hitting revenues.
May 31, Luke Koran rated it it was amazing Shelves: baseball. THIS book proves why it is so much better to read an in-depth book or thorough newspaper article on such an important topic rather than solely rely on television or newspaper journalism, as those mediums often only focus on a few of the dirty details which journalists and editors falsely believe are the only details the public wishes to hear about.
Apr 08, Jim rated it it was amazing. This is an incredible book This is journalism at its best! I have been aware of this book for sometime, but at the recent Tucson Festival of Books, both authors were there and gave a riveting account of this on-going story. So many similarities to Watergate and Woodward and Bernstein. I sat in utter fascination for an hour as they told how the story unfolded.
Even more interesting, This is an incredible book Even more interesting, they gave updated information that is not in the book as the story continues to escalate. Barry Bonds has not gone to trial yet and it may be a while before he does. But other big-name ball players are also now involved in the scandal. Their reporting opened the huge Pandora's Box that is now the steroids and HGH scandal that has rocked all of sports.
It is obvious that baseball wanted to sweep the steroid scandals under the carpet, but these two reporters made sure that could not happen. And they put their own lives in danger because they published secret federal grand jury testimony. It is only mentioned in passing in the book, but these two were actually sentenced to 18 months in prison for not releasing the name of their source for the published transcripts.
It was only when the person who gave them the documents came forward that they were saved from prison. I hope there might be a followup book since so much has happened since the publication of this book.
Anyway, their writing and reporting is impeccable in this book. They have obviously checked all their sources quite carefully as they come right out and say that Bonds and other very famous athletes in baseball, football, and track took steroids.
Names are named and it might shock you. At the book festival, I asked the question: do they think that if and when Bonds goes to trial, in their opinion, will he be convicted. Their answer was probably, but they wished that if it were possible, they would want both Bonds and the government to lose.
The prosecution of this case, according to them, has risen to new heights of persecution and overstepping of their mandate. According to them, Bonds and the prosecution are not good people. June 2, - Bonds requests and is granted dismissal of his lawsuit against the authors of the book, "Game of Shadows," as the authors have been subpoenaed to testify before by a federal grand jury regarding the BALCO court case documents they obtained.
September 23, - Bonds hits his th home run, beating Hank Aaron's National League home run record. August 4, - Bonds hits his th home run, tying with Aaron as the all-time home run leader. August 7, - Bonds hits his th home run, surpassing Aaron as the all-time home run leader. September 21, - The San Francisco Giants announce they will not re-sign Bonds for the season. November 15, - A federal grand jury indicts Bonds on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. The indictment is in connection to an investigation of the use of steroids in major league baseball.
May 12, - Federal prosecutors file a superseding indictment against Bonds, charging him with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction of justice when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs. July 1, - Bonds th home run ball is received by the Hall of Fame with the addition of a carved asterisk from ball owner, Marc Ecko. Bonds is reported as saying he will not allow himself to be inducted if the asterisk ball is put on display.
November 25, - A judge dismisses three of the perjury counts against Bonds. January 21, - A federal judge announces that former teammates and retired baseball players will have to testify in Bond's upcoming perjury trial. February 10, - Bonds has the number of felony charges brought against him by federal prosecutors reduced from 11 to five. March 22, - Gary Anderson, Bonds' personal trainer, is found in civil contempt and taken into custody when he refuses to take the stand to answer questions about Bonds' steroid use.
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