CHAPTER SIXTEEN
“These other awards are nice . . .” Interview with Jack O’Connell. “When the book comes out . . .” Interview with Bob Klapisch. “We flunked. We blew it . . .” Interview with Jon Heyman. “None of these pills and powders . . .” USA Today/Baseball Weekly, “Lifting the Game,” by Pete Williams, May 7, 1997. “Can you imagine someone . . .” San Francisco Chronicle, “Unprecedented, Underappreciated,” by Bruce Jenkins, October 8, 2001. “Mantle and Maris were in the same lineup . . .” New York Times, “Sosa and McGwire Just Kept Going,” by George Vecsey, September 28, 1998. “What changed the whole story was BALCO . . .” Interview with Mark Fainaru-Wada. “We’re at a level now where . . .”; “As I sit here today, I cannot tell you . . .” Statement of Robert Manfred to Senate Commerce Committee, June 18, 2002. “I’ve been in this game forty years . . .” Interview with Bud Selig. “Derrick Turnbow did not test positive for a steroid . . .” Baseball America, “Sledge Becomes Second to Test Positive for a Steroid,” by Will Kimmey, January 14, 2003. “Do you know what bothers me about these Crusaders . . .” Interview with Rob Manfred. “Maybe I’m dumb or naïve . . .” Interview with Bud Selig. “Gather ’round, ladies and gentlemen . . .” USA Today, “Don and Bud’s Drug Testing Policy Is Virtually Ridiculous,” by Christine Brennan, March 10, 2005.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
“It was a terrible tragedy . . .” Interview with Ellis Burks. “I don’t owe anyone a response to anything . . .” New York Daily News, “Surly Bonds Wins 7th MVP,” by Christian Red, November 17, 2004. “I tell my kids, my wife, everybody . . .” Interview with David Ortiz. “Barry Bonds is on another planet, . . .” Interview with Billy Beane. “Bonds is so good . . .” Interview with Buster Olney. “They’d say, ‘You haven’t needed any glass lately . . .’ ” New York Times, “The .300- 100-100-30-50 Man,” by Dave Anderson, October 8, 1990. “Anyone touches Van Slyke on this club . . .” New York Times, “It’s Race, Not Money, Says Bonds,” by Joe Sexton June 6, 1992. “One player’s not going to run this club . . .” Associated Press, “Leyland, Bonds Dispute,” March 5, 1991. “If I’m quiet and don’t talk . . .” New York Times, “Bonds Says He’s Puzzled by Bad-Guy Image,” by Claire Smith, March 6, 1991. “I always liked Barry . . .” Interview with David Justice. “Barry’s of two worlds . . .” Interview with Dusty Baker. “You’re not supposed to look down . . .” Interview with Gary Sheffield. “I think he got mad . . .” Interview with Jon Heyman. “Did you see my man? He was huge.” San Francisco Chronicle, “Bigger, Stronger Bonds Doesn’t Go Unnoticed,” by Henry Schulman, February 26, 1999. “When I played, you could get Barry out . . .” Interview with Jeff Brantley.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
“I guess we’ll have to wait for Jose Canseco’s book . . .” ESPN.com, “Steroids Taint Caminiti’s Career,” by Tony Gwynn, May 29, 2002. http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/gwynn_tony/1388401.html. “We detailed Mark’s workout routine . . .” New York Times, “LaRussa Disputes Claims in Canseco’s Book,” by Tyler Kepner, February 7, 2005. Bud Selig has told Wallace . . . Interview with Bud Selig. “Jesus Christ . . .” Interview with Mike Wallace. “Already, the lords of the game . . .” Chicago-Sun Times, “Canseco No Less Credible Than Baseball,” by Jay Mariotti, February 8, 2005. “As GM, I probably get to know these guys . . .” ESPN, the Magazine, “Kevin Towers: I Feel Somewhat Guilty,” by Buster Olney, February 27, 2005. Five days before the hearings . . . New York Daily News, “Surly Bonds Wins 7th MVP,” by Christian Red, November 17, 2004. “If steroids were the cause of everything . . .” Interview with Donald Fehr. “Don Fehr seems to have a real talent . . .” Interview with John Hoberman. “It was clear that first Miller . . .” Interview with Bob Costas. “If you tell me steroids help you . . .” Boston Globe, “Years After Exit, Miller Has Say,” by Gordon Edes, January 15, 2005. “Listening to Marvin Miller now, . . .” Interview with Bob Costas. “I sat there and listened to him talk . . .” Interview with Elijah Cummings. “For seventeen years there has been . . .” Interview with Curt Schilling. “There were no rules . . .” Interview with Jeff Horrigan. “They’ve really damaged something . . .” Interview with David Halberstam. “When we went into that conference . . .” Eliot Asimov, Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (New York: Owl Books, 1987). “This is a real high-profile situation . . .” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “LaRussa Admits He Suspected Canseco Used Steroids,” by Derrick Goold, February 17, 2005.
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