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Synopsis
This audiobook is the window into the underground world of cheating at the highest levels, which set off a frenzy of activity and hand-wringing in the offices of Major League Baseball and Congress. Through the authors' pursuit of sources and documents, they were able to open for public view a world in which elite athletes trade money and risk their health for the edge that will allow them to run faster, hit harder, and compete longer--and then cash in on the fame and wealth that comes only to those at the very top of their games.
What the compelling newspaper articles weren't able to provide is the kind of narrative and inside-baseball look at BALCO that only a book or audiobook could explore. This is the definitive account of the sports story of our times, as written by the journalists who blew it open.
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Review
Scorching. . . . A testament to baseball's failure. ("Newsweek")
Superb. . . . Important and disturbing. ("San Francisco Chronicle")
A compelling portrait of conspiracy. . . . Fascinating. ("The Boston Globe")
A sober, skillful and utterly damning account of not just the Bonds fiasco but the pervasive influence of steroids in sports. ("Los Angeles Times")
ÝFainaru-Wada and Williams¨ have got the goods and they reveal them methodically. Everything is well-sourced and meticulously explicated. ("Chicago Tribune")
Devastating. . . . groundbreaking. . . . Necessary reading for anyone concerned with the steroids era in baseball and track and field and its fallout on sports history. (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times")
[Fainaru-Wada and Williams] have got the goods and they reveal them methodically. Everything is well-sourced and meticulously explicated. ("Chicago Tribune")
Scorching. . . . A testament to baseballs failure. ("Newsweek")
Scorching. . . . A testament to baseballas failure. ("Newsweek")
The evidence is detailed, damning, and overwhelming. . . . It's a growing bonfire of controversy. This book is one of the matches. ("The Philadelphia Inquirer")
About the Author
Mark Fainaru-Wada is an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. After fifteen months of covering steroid use in sports, in December 2004 they reported in the Chronicle on the secret grand jury testimony of pro baseball players Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds, making headlines around the world. Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams won the Dick Schaap Excellence in Sports Journalism Award, the George Polk Award, and the White House Correspondents Association s Edgar A. Poe Award for their reporting.
Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada are reporters on the investigative team at the San Francisco Chronicle. Together, they broke a series of exclusive stories on the BALCO scandal and earned a string of national honors, including the George Polk Award, The Edgar A. Poe Award of the White House Correspondents Association, The Dick Schaap Excellence in Sports Journalism Award and The Associated Press Sports Editors award for investigative reporting.
Williams has written on subjects including the California cocaine trade, Oakland s Black Panther Party and the career of San Francisco mayor and political power-broker Willie Brown. His journalism also has been honored with: the Gerald Loeb Award for financial writing; the California Associated Press Fairbanks Award for public service; and, on three occasions, the Center for California Studies' California Journalism Award for political reporting. He was the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Journalist of the Year in 1999.
Born in Ohio, he graduated from Brown University and the University of California-Berkeley and attended University College, London, U.K. Before joining the Chronicle, he worked as a reporter at the Hayward Daily Review, the Oakland Tribune, and the San Francisco Examiner. He was a University of Michigan Journalism Fellow in 1986-87.
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0739323806
- ISBN 13 9780739323809
- BindingAudio CD
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