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Blood sport : Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the quest to end baseball's steroid era / Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elfrink, Tim, author.
- Garcia-Roberts, Gus, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Corrupt practices--United States.
- Baseball.
- Baseball players--Drug use--United States.
- Baseball players.
- Doping in sports--United States.
- Doping in sports.
- Baseball players--Drug use.
- Baseball--Corrupt practices.
- United States.
- Biogenesis of America.
- Rodriguez, Alex, 1975-.
- Rodriguez, Alex.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton , [2014]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780525954637
- 0525954635
- OCLC:
- 869263798
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