Reddit reviews Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports

Because of journalism

>A look at how Bonds was driven to use performance-enhancing drugs in part by jealousy over Mark McGwire’s record-breaking 1998 season. It was shortly thereafter that Bonds—who had never used anything more performance enhancing than a protein shake from the health food store—first began using steroids.

https://www.amazon.com/Game-Shadows-Steroids-Scandal-Professional/dp/1592402682

Book: Game of Shadows

From the synopsis on Amazon:



>The book traces the career of Victor Conte, founder of the BALCO laboratory, an egomaniacal former rock musician and self-proclaimed nutritionist, who set out to corrupt sports by providing athletes with “designer” steroids that would be undetectable on “state-of-the-art” doping tests. Conte gave the undetectable drugs to 28 of the world’s greatest athletes—Olympians, NFL players and baseball stars, Bonds chief among them.
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>A separate narrative thread details the steroids use of Bonds, an immensely talented, moody player who turned to performance-enhancing drugs after Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals set a new home run record in 1998. Through his personal trainer, Bonds gained access to BALCO drugs. All of the great athletes who visited BALCO benefited tremendously—Bonds broke McGwire’s record—but many had their careers disrupted after federal investigators raided BALCO and indicted Conte. The authors trace the course of the probe, and the baffling decision of federal prosecutors to protect the elite athletes who were involved.
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>Highlights of Game of Shadows include:

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>Barry Bonds

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>A look at how Bonds was driven to use performance-enhancing drugs in part by jealousy over Mark McGwire’s record-breaking 1998 season. It was shortly thereafter that Bonds—who had never used anything more performance enhancing than a protein shake from the health food store—first began using steroids.
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>How Bonds’s weight trainer, steroid dealer Greg Anderson, arranged to meet Victor Conte before the 2001 baseball season with...

Look up Victor Conte or read the book "Game of Shadows" if you really want to know more about it OP. There are designer steroids that the testers don't know about. Until they can get a sample & devise a test to detect it, you're in the clear.

So your argument is yeah, he cheated, but his cheating enabled him to hit lots of home runs so it's cool.

http://www.amazon.com/Game-Shadows-Steroids-Scandal-Professional/dp/1592402682