How Steroids Have Infiltrated Baseball and a Book Review of Game of Shadows

After completing the reading of the book Game of Shadows by the reporters Mark Fainaru -Wade and Lance Williams I found the book to reinforce my suspicions about baseball and steroids as I had believed. Baseball is not a clean game and is infected with steroids and other drugs that are illegal in almost every single sport except for baseball. The book doesn't just state that Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, and Jason Giambi used steroids; it demonstrates convincing evidence and proof against the players involved and how they were able to beat the drug testers.

The story follows Internal Revenue Service Agent Jeff Novitzky on his path as he tracked down the BALCO lab and its drug dealings. BALCO was led by Victor Conte who dealt on a high level basis with Greg Anderson who was Barry Bonds' trainer. More than just detailing the investigation that took place with the BALCO lab and steroids being bought and sold illegally, the book details the personality of Barry Bonds who is much worse than the ordinary fan views Bonds. An arrogant, racist, selfish man who is abusive toward women and thinks he can get away with anything, the Game of Shadows shows just how confident he was and still is of continuing to play baseball despite using steroids.

Moreover, the Game of Shadows details the events of major league baseball and how pathetic Bud Selig was in his investigation of steroids. After hearing that steroids had infiltrated the game, his initial policy was to suspend players using steroids for only 10 games for the first offense. Finally, Congress decided to step in and said that they had enough of baseball's pathetic efforts to stop steroid use in baseball. After putting much pressure on baseball commissioner Bud Selig, the steroid drug policy was 50 games suspension for 1^st time offenses for drug use.