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Blood sport, Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the quest to end baseball's steroid era, Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts

Label
Blood sport, Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the quest to end baseball's steroid era, Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Blood sport
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
869263798
Responsibility statement
Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts
Sub title
Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the quest to end baseball's steroid era
Summary
Describes how stolen ledgers revealed how the Florida clinic Biogenesis of America provided performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball players, and discusses the resulting scandal and season-long suspension for Alex Rodriguez
Table Of Contents
Prologue: "Collateral damage" -- A cousin with a rocket launcher -- Mystery elixirs, speed, and steroids -- License to dope -- Gurus of growth hormone -- Steroid spring cleaning -- "Dr. G, you are the best!" -- Inside the notebooks -- Bosch's shadow empire -- "HS" -- Infiltrating "The U" -- MLB's CIA : enter the spies -- The beginning of the end -- A new steroid era exposed -- Bad cops -- A snitch is born -- Singled out -- The "farce" -- Epilogue: The cost of war
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