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Game of Shadows

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Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports is a bestselling non-fiction book published on March 23, 2006 and written by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle. [1]

30 relations: BALCO scandal, Barry Bonds, Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, Benito Santiago, Claire Diaz Ortiz, Doping in baseball, Doping in the United States, Dwain Chambers, February 2007 in sports, George J. Mitchell, Greg Anderson (trainer), History of baseball in the United States, Insulin (medication), Jason Christiansen, Jeff Pearlman, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, List of doping cases in sport by substance, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball scandals, Mark Fainaru-Wada, Miloš Šarčev, Mitchell Report, Non-denial denial, Redwood High School (Larkspur, California), Steve Wilstein, Summer of ’98, Victor Conte, Wyoming High School (Ohio), 1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game, 2007 in sports.

BALCO scandal

The BALCO scandal was a scandal involving the use of banned, performance-enhancing substances by professional athletes.

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Barry Bonds

Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964) is an American former professional baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants.

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Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative

The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) (1984–2003) was an American company led by founder and owner Victor Conte.

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Benito Santiago

Benito Santiago Rivera (born March 9, 1965) is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball player.

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Claire Diaz Ortiz

Claire Diaz-Ortiz (born 1982) is an American author, speaker, and employee of Twitter.

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Doping in baseball

Banned substances in baseball has been an ongoing issue for Major League Baseball.

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Doping in the United States

Doping, or the use of restricted performance-enhancing drugs in the United States has a systemic nature, most notably in the sports of baseball and football.

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Dwain Chambers

Dwain Anthony Chambers (born 5 April 1978) is a retired British track sprinter.

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February 2007 in sports

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George J. Mitchell

George John Mitchell Jr. (born August 20, 1933) is an American lawyer, businessman, author, and politician.

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Greg Anderson (trainer)

Greg F. Anderson (born February 1966) is a current personal trainer, best known for his work with Barry Bonds, and links with BALCO.

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History of baseball in the United States

The history of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 19th century, when amateurs played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment.

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Insulin (medication)

Insulin is a protein hormone that is used as a medication to treat high blood glucose.

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Jason Christiansen

Jason Samuel Christiansen (born September 21, 1969) is a former Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher.

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Jeff Pearlman

Jeff Pearlman (born 1972) is an American sports writer.

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Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada

Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada co-authored the book Game of Shadows while they were reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle.

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List of doping cases in sport by substance

This is a list of doping in sport cases, or known cases of performance-enhancing substance use by professional athletes.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

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Major League Baseball scandals

There have been many dramatic on-and-off-field moments in over 130 years of Major League Baseball.

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Mark Fainaru-Wada

Mark Fainaru-Wada is an American journalist and writer, working for ESPN since 2007.

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Miloš Šarčev

Miloš Šarčev (Serbian Cyrillic: Милош Шарчев) (born January 17, 1964) is an IFBB bodybuilder from Bečej, Serbia known for his symmetry.

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Mitchell Report

The Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball, informally known as the "Mitchell Report," is the result of former Democratic United States Senator from Maine George J. Mitchell's 20-month investigation into the use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (HGH) in Major League Baseball (MLB).

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Non-denial denial

A non-denial denial is a statement that, at first hearing, seems a direct, clearcut and unambiguous denial of some alleged accusation, but on carefully parsing turns out not to be a denial at all, and is thus not explicitly untruthful if the allegation is in fact correct.

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Redwood High School (Larkspur, California)

Redwood High School is a public secondary school located in the city of Larkspur, Marin County, California, approximately 11 miles north of San Francisco.

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Steve Wilstein

Steve Wilstein (born September 1, 1948 in New York) is an American sportswriter, author and photographer.

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Summer of ’98

Summer of ’98: When Homers Flew, Records Fell, and Baseball Reclaimed America is a 1999 book written by Mike Lupica a sports columnist for the New York Daily News and an ESPN analyst.

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Victor Conte

Victor Conte Jr. (born 1950 in Fresno, California) is a former bassist with Tower of Power and the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), a sports nutrition center in California.

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Wyoming High School (Ohio)

Wyoming High School (WHS) is a public high school located in Wyoming, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.

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1998 National League Wild Card tie-breaker game

The 1998 National League wild-card tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1998 regular season, played between the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants to determine the winner of the National League (NL) wild card.

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2007 in sports

2007 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Shadows

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