{"product_id":"9780525954637","title":"Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive and dramatic story of the Alex Rodriguez and Biogenesis scandal, written by the reporters who broke and covered the story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn January 29th, 2013, an exposé by\u003ci\u003e Miami New Times\u003c\/i\u003e reporter Tim Elfrink set the sports world on fire. Elfrink revealed that a Miami clinic, Biogenesis, had been supplying illegal performance enhancing drugs – PEDs – to many of the nation’s top baseball stars. One name stood out among all the others: Alex Rodriguez, the highest-earning player in the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the next year and more the story would unravel with incredible details about tanning salon robberies, coded text messages, and furtive steroid injections in the men’s room. In late 2013 Alex Rodriguez would be hit with the longest suspension in MLB history, prompting an ugly fight between him and top league brass. Fourteen other players, including superstar Ryan Braun, were also given shorter suspensions. Tony Bosch, Biogenesis’s founder, would appear on 60 Minutes in an effort to tell his side of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat’s already been reported in the press has been fascinating; but the story behind the headlines that Elfrink and \u003ci\u003eNewsday \u003c\/i\u003ereporter Gus Garcia-Roberts have unearthed is even more dramatic and full of new, shocking details. Using exclusive documents, never-before-reported records and interviews with top sources, this book takes the reader inside drug deals, athletes’ mansions, and confidential suspension hearings to tell the true story behind the sport’s continuing PED crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth news-breaking sports journalism and wild South Florida noir, \u003ci\u003eBlood Sport\u003c\/i\u003e is simultaneously a revelatory record of the steroid and PED era’s continuing evolution and a call to arms for how to end it – this time, for good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058033869040,"sku":"9780525954637","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525954637_p0.jpg?v=1763711175","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525954637","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}