Title: Blood sport : Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the quest to end baseball's steroid era /
Authors: Elfrink, Tim,; Garcia-Roberts, Gus,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Rodriguez, Alex,; Biogenesis of America; Baseball Corrupt practices United States.; Baseball players Drug use United States.; Doping in sports United States
Abstract: 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.