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The blockbuster New York Times bestseller that caused a media firestorm and stayed in the headlines for weeks at last arrives in paperback—with a new afterword about the Barry Bonds perjury investigation.
This is the complete inside story of the BALCO steroids scandal from the award-winning reporters who broke the news nationally. In the summer of 1998, as baseball was still struggling to regain popularity lost during the contentious 1994 players' strike that caused the World Series to be canceled, a race to break the home-run record transfixed the nation. Over the next three seasons, baseball players across the country hit home runs at unprecedented rates. Although sportswriters pointed to suspicions of “juiced” baseballs and small parks being responsible, there were whispers that illegal performance-enhancing drugs were being used. But home runs were big business, and baseball carried on with a weak performance-drug testing regime.
In December of 2004, after more than a year of investigation, San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams broke the story that in a federal investigation of a nutritional supplement company called BALCO, Barry Bonds and fellow slugger Jason Giambi had admitted to taking steroids. Immediately the issue of steroids in baseball became front-page news. In Game of Shadows, Fainaru-Wada and Williams expose the secrets of BALCO, illuminating how professional athletes risked their health for a competitive edge.
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Marion Jones was on the juice and is stripped of Olympic medals.......2007-10-10
Well, well, well, to all those who rated this book 1 star and allowed their parochial enthusiasims to blind them: you've been hoodwinked.
Hoodwinked by millionaire athletes who wanted to make a few million more.
Bonds, like Marion Jones, was a customer of BALCO.
When will Bonds join Jones? Looks like lawyers will decide the homerun tally!
Important, but no page-turner.......2007-10-05
This is an important book, but, at the risk of going against popular opinion, I have to point out that it is not the most readable one. Page after page can be boiled down to, "(Insert name here) was an athlete who was heavily involved in the bodybuilding/weightlifting/track and field scene, and (s)he came to eccentric Victor Conte for help. Here's a prosaic biography and career summary of this person before and after BALCO." It does a very good job of portraying Conte as a sort of mad-scientist kook- in fact he emerges as the only interesting character in the narrative. For the first hundred pages or so, Barry Bonds is an angry, morose specter hovering on the fringes of the story, shaking his fist jealously at Mark McGwire and mistreating his girlfriend, while Conte cooks up wacky scientific experiments to dope up this track star and that bodybuilder. Keeping all of the names and dates straight as things progress gets tougher and tougher, and it's not entirely clear how someone as daffy as Conte the failed "Tower of Power" bassist and fly-by-night entrepeneur could build his business so quickly into such a successful one, be it legal or not. By the middle of the book you're sure to hit that epiphany of freedom one has when one realizes no one is looking over your shoulder forcing you to read each line of the book, and that the guilt that comes with skimming the actual text itself can be overcome by the knowledge that the reader has at least joined the legions who've bought the thing and contributed to the entirely noble and justified campaign to bring this scandal out into the open and discredit the guilty parties.
a sad commentary on America's pasttime.......2007-10-04
a well-written, thoroughly researched and easy-to-read book on this plague in American sports. I would encourage anyone to pick it up and read it.
Having read this book before Bonds broke the record, it just made me that much angrier when he finally did break it.
These two authors did what MLB and Bud Selig should have done years ago --
The real story of baseball and steroids.......2007-08-24
This is a highly detailed, painstakingly accurate review of the whole BALCO mess. Barry Bonds is clearly a steroid user, but so are so many others. It's all here -- the amateurish, bumbling investigation, baseball's non-involvement, and so on. If you want to know what actually happened and who is involved, read this book.
The Home Run King.......2007-08-14
An excellent and interesting insight into what most people have suspected about high performance athletes. I never wanted to put it down.
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Very interesting read.......2007-07-10
This is quite simply one of the best sports biographies I have ever read. It is written in a very readable and interesting manner. Very highly recommended.
A Different Perspective.......2006-08-27
The author certainly did his homework by interviewing over 500 people who have had some interaction with Bonds over his life in order to write this book. What was grat about this book was that it wasn't written by Bonds or from the perspective of the author it was more other peoples true experiences about Bonds spun into a book. This was a fresh look at this guy and not written to drag him down or to glorify him, you are left to make your own opinion. I liked it.
Barry Bonds.......2006-08-18
I thought this would be a good book for a teen to read, however, there was much too much foul language.
Excellent insight into Barry Bonds.......2006-07-25
Excellent book. Very entertaining. If you are a baseball fan this is a must have as it talks of Bonds throughout his baseball career. There are many quotes from his teammates on the Pirates and the Giants as well as items from his college days.
The book talks about his marriages and his relationship with his dad.
I finished this book in a week when it usually takes me a month or so to finish a book. I could not put it down.
The Link Between Insecurity and Greatness. .......2006-07-07
This book is ironically titled because the real Barry Bonds, who you feel like they know after finishing Jeff Pearlman's thrilling biography, is a man one can neither love nor hate. His excellence is tarnished by his personality which is so obviously confused that, despite the brutality with which he treats others, renders one incapable of hating him. Barry Bonds is yet another example of self-esteem having an inverse relationship with success. Had Bonds been a satisfied young man, he would have never expended every particle of his physical and mental energy conquering a craft which would one day make him a national celebrity and a fabulously wealthy person. Bonds's infinitesimal self-doubt caused him to train like, and with, Jerry Rice and even cry on the rare occasion he had to miss a game, but it also alienated almost everyone he came into contact with. He is a petty, abrasive, and irritable man who is entirely devoid of social skills. This reality makes one pity him which is not the reaction one expects to have towards a finger pointing, whining mega-millionaire. When you look at the numbers over the course of his career, it is readily apparent that Bonds really is the Michael Jordan of baseball, and that most of us don't realize it is directly related to the horrendous way with which he interacts with peers, the press, the fans, and your average citizen. I am a fairly hardened person, but I was shocked to read the passages documenting this icon's habit of berating small children who ask for his autograph. He seems to insult and slight others for absolutely no reason whatsoever. As for steroids and BALCO, Pearlman does not hedge on the issue which is quite appropriate considering the evidence. The author is certain that the allegations against Bonds are true, and the stigma he is now under is doubly tragic because the reality is that the Giant would have gone to the Hall of Fame without an ounce of illegal substance. After the scandal, it's now a crap shoot as to whether or not he'll ever make it to Cooperstown. This is a cautionary tale.
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It's Outta Here!: The History of the Home Run from Babe Ruth to Barry Bonds
Bill Gutman
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The book will look at the history of the home run, the game's greatest sluggers, as well as other factors that have led to the home run affecting the game. From Babe Ruth's homers that saved baseball, to the slugging 1950s and 1960s when many great home run hitters arrived, to today's game tainted by a steroid scandal. It will also include all the team and individual records and dramatize record-breaking performances. It will also talk about the various ballparks and answer questions of how the baseball has changed. Is it juiced to travel further, etc.
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Good But Flawed.......2005-11-16
If you're interested in the history of the home run this is the book to read. Mr. Gutman does a fine job of outlining the ebb and flow of home runs through the various baseball eras. He discusses the players, the changing dimensions of the stadiums, the tinkering with the baseball itself, famous home runs, and of course the steroid problem.
My only complaint is there are a fair number of typos in the book and at least one factual error. Gil Hodges was not "just the second player since 1901 to hit four home runs in a game".
Chuck Klein hit four out in one game for the Phillies in 1936, and Pat Seerey hit four out in one game for the White Sox in 1948.
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- John Barry - A more personal view on the composer
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John Barry: A Sixties Theme: From James Bond to Midnight Cowboy
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John Barry has been called the most important popular British composer of the 20th century. Winner of five Oscars, and composer of the James Bond films, "Born Free," "Midnight Cowboy," "Out of Africa," and "Dances with Wolves," he has become a cultural icon and an inspiration to countless musicians. Throughout the 1960s Barry was at the heart of swinging London, and his career reflects the evolution of post-war British music from big band to rock and roll and the birth of pop, and his beginnings in the film world coincided with the renaissance of British cinema. Written with the cooperation of John Barry, and including insights from friends, John Barry: A Sixties Theme is a re-creation of a period when London was the international focus for music and film.
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John Barry - A more personal view on the composer.......2007-03-22
This book, more than anything else, offers a more private view on the man. In a musical and/or artistic point of view, the book doesn't have much to offer. It has many interesting facts, curious details, and a few insightful views on the man's music and the british culture as such. But most of it is relatively superficial, focusing probably on what the more commercial audience generally looks for.
Overall, it's a well compiled biography, and essential for any John Barry fan out there. It can also be a good source of information about the british culture in the sixties. But could've been better.
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Barry Bonds has emerged, statistically, as the most feared hitter since Babe Ruth. Bonds, winner of a record six MVP awards, holds the single-season record for home-runs, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, and walks, and is the only player ever to have hit 500 home-runs and stolen 500 bases. His statistical performance is beyond reproach, but his public image remains controversial, and recent allegations of steroid use have cast a shadow over his unprecedented accomplishments. This timely book strips away the hype and takes an objective look and Bonds' life and career. It has been said that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in professional sports. Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters presents biographies on Greenwood's selection for the 12 best hitters in Major League history, written by some of today's best baseball authors. These books present straightforward stories in accessible language for the high school researcher and the general reader alike. Each volume includes a timeline, bibliography, and index. In addition, each volume includes a "Making of a Legend" chapter that analyses the evolution of the player's fame and (in some cases) infamy.
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Barry is Da Kang of Baseball.......2006-04-02
I don't care what nobody says about Barry Bonds I'll always be cool with the Man,because he is a 5 tool player who can Hit,run,play field,Hit for Power&create a winning situation for his team. Barry Bonds is the Best Hitter.
A Man of Integrity and Power.......2006-03-18
The hitting prowess of Barry Bonds is probably the greatest in the history of baseball. He is steadily but surely becoming a legend in his own time. This is an interesting and absorbing book. It has fascinated me and pinnacled my interest in this sports super star.
Best of the Best.......2006-03-18
Barry Bonds is one of the best hitters in the game. His records are a testament to that. A great book on a great man and player. There are more goals and records out there to break and he's the man to do it!
One of the Greatest Hitters in Depth.......2006-03-10
This is an in-depth look at Barry Bonds who is one of the greatest hitters of the game of baseball. The statistics are there in the record book but what is behind those numbers? This book tries to be objective on this subject. Fame and Barry Bonds' place in the history of baseball is a timely issue and this book is worth reading.
An intriguing coverage.......2005-04-07
Baseball star Barry Bonds was one of the sport's greatest hitters, and John Bloom's biographical sketch BARRY BONDS joins others in the `Greatest Hitters' series presenting a review of his life and talents. Chapters detail his statistical performance, his controversial public image, and the accusations of steroid use which cloud his reputation today. An intriguing coverage.
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Just as players and coaches are hitting their stride at spring training, a new book, This Gracious Season (Winter Publications, March 2002), reminds us what a magical season 2001 was for the San Francisco Giants and their Future Hall-of-Fame slugger, Barry Bonds.
Josh Suchon, the Giants' beat writer for the Oakland Tribune, has a unique behind-closed-door access to Bonds and the team, which inspired him to chronicle his experiences of watching, listening and discussing Bonds' chase of the most hallowed record in all of sports -- the single season home run record. However this isn't just a book about home runs. It's about putting Bonds' home runs into context. What made them special as singular moments in time. What they did to fuel the anticipation of more home runs. And how, as a whole, they made 2001 one gracious season for Barry Lamar Bonds.
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Editors, what were you thinking?.......2003-06-10
I am quite the Barry Bonds fan, so I looked very forward to reading This Gracious Season. Unfortunately the story was nearly impossible for me to focus on through all of the mis-punctuation, misuse of words, and failed attempts at lace. I think, that Josh Suchon, must have received, a royalty, from every, comma, used.
Yes, the story was a good one. But that has little to do with the author, being as this was a biography. I like that he threw in personal tidbits, but they were drowning in a sea of Josh Suchon's attempts at using a thesaurus, and showing off his ability to look up sports stats. One of my favorite movie lines (paraphrased) is applicable here: Sometimes more isn't better; it's just more.
Barry, I love you. Josh, stick to the papers.
Great for Baseball Fans.......2003-01-17
This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the behind-the-scenes world of major league baseball, its rivalries and intense contract negotiations.
It approaches the story as an insider's look at a somewhat unlovable sports figure and the greatest year in his career (the author is a Giants beat writer.) I learned a lot about Bonds, his respect for family and privacy and his feelings towards his teammates and fellow MLB players as well as his much-publicized, love-hate relationship with the media.
If you're a fan of the game or a student of the baseball industry, this book should be a must-read.
Pretty much a love letter to Barry.......2002-12-04
This book could have been great, showing the "real" Barry Bonds, the one who takes every advantage for himself at the expense of the great game and sometimes his own team. Instead, it is more or less a book written as Barry wanted it. The fact that the author admits he envisions the book on Barry's shelf is enough evidence that his goal was not to acurately tell the true story of the man and the season of 2001, but rather to tell a fictional story of Barry and furthers the fantasy of those blinded by their loyalty to the Giants that Barry is anything more than a good ball player who could care less about the game, his teammates, and the fans who pay his salary.
The many inconsistencies between the accounts in this book and the reality of the season give further evidence that this is a work of fiction. The authors deliberate smooching of Barry to gain favor and be "allowed" to speak to the man shows the real sham here. Read other accounts of the same events by multiple other writers and you will see how Barry-serving and lopsided this book is.
It's pretty much a fantasy.
Josh Suchon misses the show - some of it.......2002-08-03
In spite of his Hall of Fame ability, Barry Bonds has long had a reputation as an arrogant unfeeling individual who does not serve well as an ambassador for the game, in the same sense that McGwire, Sosa, Gwynn, and Ripken have done, and a book about him doesn't seem to attract any interest outside of Giant country. To coin a phrase made notorious by Barry himself, are baseball fans still missing the show?
This particular book is about author Josh Suchon's experience of Barry's record-breaking 2001 baseball season, which had the baseball world agog. And Suchon makes the mistake of allowing himself to become too close to his subject, even acknowledging that he envisions his book on Barry's bookshelf. But the book is not a "whitewash", as others have claimed. The title is based on the Shakespeare quotation set forth after the title page, and, in the present context, the word "gracious" is meant to describe Bonds's performance and not Barry himself.
Suchon doesn't deny Barry's shortcomings; he simply places them in the perspective of his other qualities such as his work ethic and his willingness to play in pain.
He also places Bonds's shortcomings in the perspective of the demands made on his time, the expectations held of him, the behavior of other ballplayers, and the context of the given situation. These are better derived from the book than described by me, but, to take one example, the infamous "Barry's corner" of the Giant clubhouse exists largely for therapeutic purposes. The $3,000 couch on which he lounges is a vibrating couch that heals his back, which was purchased by Barry, and not the team.
Beyond that, Suchon misses very little. Like Ishmael, he makes his presence known but wisely does not impose too much of himself in describing events as they unfold, knowing full well that the story in itself is remarkable enough.
Suchon covers the season from beginning to end, including the Giants' failure to sign Bonds to a long term contract before his "option" season started; and his relationship with his father, Bobby Bonds - an ex-Giant and star in his own right - and Bobby's teammates, Barry's godfather, Willie Mays and his boyhood idol, Willie McCovey. As a young boy, Barry was a fixture in the Giant clubhouse and would gaze at the players whose records he would someday chase.
Barry's present-day complex relationship with the Giant front office and with his manager, teammates, and opponents, as well as the peaks and valleys of a season in which individual glory didn't necessarily bring about team success, is also discussed.
Suchon also describes the challenges that Bonds faced during a season that must have sometimes seemed less than gracious, including a threat against his life, the actual death of a close personal friend, and a revision of perspective after September 11 (the post-tragedy hiatus also stymied the momentum he had built up beforehand).
Most treacherous of all is the disdainful manner in which Bonds was treated by opposing pitchers who often simply refused to pitch to him, regardless of the game setting. Giants fans will long remember Houston Astros manager, Larry Dierker and his pitching staff skulking on the lowest end of the cowardice scale, and the TV camera shots of Barry's daughters holding signs pleading, "Please pitch to our Daddy".
The relationship that Barry developed with the fans is worth several psychological treatises on human nature. Possibly the most unpopular ballplayer outside of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bonds has always been lustily booed when the Giants play on the road and when he chased McGwire's home run record last year, few fans were rooting for him to break it.
And yet - when Giants opponents refused to pitch to Bonds, the fans - ESPECIALLY the Houston Astros fans !!! - would boo their own team with at least equal fervor! They might have been rooting for Barry's defeat but not at the expense of honor. It's a curious and gratifying aspect of the baseball fan that his sense of fair play might actually outweigh his personal dislike for an individual player.
The book ends after Barry has signed a long-term contract to finish his career with the Giants. And Suchon strikes out by failing to adequately analyze the motives of the star who has said that he wants a World Series ring more than anything else including money but who merely sold his services to the highest bidder.
Indeed, Bonds sold his services to an organization that devotes an extremely disproportionate share of its payroll to reward HIM and cannot or will not purchase the services of other stars that might help propel Bonds and his teammates into the show that Barry says he wants to perform in more than any other.
Moreover, under Dusty Baker, the Giants have become a moribund organization that lives and dies on Bonds's shoulders.
Under predecessor Roger Craig, the Giants were able to master the fine art of moving base runners and MANUFACTURING runs - when their sluggers couldn't overpower the opposition - and "stealing" wins with the hit-and-run, the sacrifice, and the squeeze play. But under Dusty Baker, Giant stewardship has become an entirely personality-driven affair, in which managerial decisions are based on favoritism, not talent or ability to deliver.
And sound fundamental baseball is an ancient memory. This is a team designed to win only if its sluggers produce every day (which even Bonds is not capable of doing) because its manager does not demand or coach excellence in baseball fundamentals.
Bonds must know all of these things and how they affect his championship dreams, but like the lady of Kent (!!!!), he "went" anyway. When analyzing Bonds's personality, the author fails to adequately expose and account for this. As a result, notwithstanding his thrilling depiction of the most gracious season ever bestowed on a ballplayer by the baseball gods, Josh Suchon still misses some of the show.
A GOOD LOOK AT THE SPOILED SUPERSTAR.......2002-07-15
THIS BOOK GIVES YOU A GOOD LOOK AT THE TALENT OF ONE OF THE GREATS IN THE SPORT. MR BONDS IS A VERY UNIQUE TALENT WHO IS A VERY COMPLEX PERSON. HIS HISTORICAL SEASON IS WELL DOCUMENTED AND IT IS DONE WITH GREAT DETAIL AND EFFORT. I SEE MANY SIDES OF BARRY BONDS. THE ONE WHO IS TRYING TO BE MORE FRIENDLY AND AWARE OF OTHER PEOPLE BESIDES HIMSELF AND THE ARROGANT SELF CENTERED PERSON OF YEARS GONE BY. ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN ABOUT THE HISTORIC SEASON OF THE RECORD SMASHING 73. WELL WORTH READING.
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- The Greatest Baseball Player Ever
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The Greatest Baseball Player Ever.......2004-08-16
the Yankees are my Team,but Barry Bonds is the Greatest Baseball Player that I have Ever seen.two things I always keep up with during baseball season: first how my Yankees did&then how Barry Bonds is doing.this is another cool Book about the Baddest Player in the game.a easy read but also on Point about the Greatest.
another excellent JEFF SAVAGE book.......2004-07-24
Prospective buyers should know that F. J McCormack, a friend of a rival sportwriter, is pushing misinformation. Jeff Savage and not that other fellow (who engages in enough self promotion that he shouldn't need to resort to having friends step all over Savage's work) is the author of this book.
Let's repeat: Jeff Savage, and no one else, is the author of this book.
As he has established a reputation for doing, Jeff Savage has put together a well-written, easily-readable and always interesting book about a star athlete. Readers young and old will enjoy this book - which was written by JEFF SAVAGE and no one else.
The Best of Barry Bonds.......2004-07-22
This insightful, well-written book is a must-read for the sports fan interested in a personal, inside view of the multi-faceted personality of the immensely talented Barry Bonds.
Bonds has provided few people with the access and insight he provided Steve Travers, the author. History will prove it to be the definitive work on one of baseball's greatest players.
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The Rise and Fall of Alan Bond
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Great Story of Australia's Greatest Corporate Fraud.......2002-01-08
In the film "Wall Street" Gordon Gekko said "Greed is good, greed is right. Greed works!"
Gordon Gekko is unfit to tie the sandals of Alan Bond.
Bond built a $5Billion empire in Australia in the 1980's, starting in 1983 when he won the America's Cup. By the end of the 1990's he was bankrupt with millions of dollars hidden offshore in places that don't like to co-operate with bankrupcy trustees.
Bond performed a miracle - he lost money selling beer to Australians.
Paul Barry writes a rollicking yarn of a scoundrel of the highest order. A must read for the greedy or those who like to watch the greedy get away with it.
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