Mark Fainaru Wada: 2 books
Game of Shadows
Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2006
In the summer of 1998 two of baseball leading sluggers, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, embarked on a race to break Babe Ruth’s single season home run record. The nation was transfixed as Sosa went on to hit 66 home runs, and McGwire 70. Three years later, San Francisco Giants All-Star Barry Bonds...
League of Denial
The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
“PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO NOT SUSTAIN FREQUENT REPETITIVE BLOWS TO THE BRAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS.”
So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted...