Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked Professional Sports »

Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams are investigative reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle. Fainaru-Wada and Williams won the Dick Schaap Excellence in Sports Journalism Award, the George Polk Award, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award for their reporting.

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...

The New York Times - Michiko Kakutani

Although Game of Shadows reprises much of the information contained in the authors' San Francisco Chronicle articles and raises many of the same issues that Howard Bryant's impressive 2005 book, Juicing the Game, did, it remains necessary reading for anyone concerned with the steroids era in baseball and track and field and its fallout on sports history.

Prologue     ix
Cheat or Lose     xix
The Investigation     151
The Most Wanted Man in America     213
Epilogue     262
Afterword     271
Bonds and Steroids     287
Bonds's Numbers     293
Source Notes     299
Acknowledgments     331
About the Authors     335
Index     337