NY Newsday got an advanced copy of the book so they broke the news about Sheffield using steroids in 2001 with Bonds. Then he and Bonds fought and Sheffield still tried to get the steroids from Balco. Funny that Bonds paid off Anderson to NOT sell steroids to sheff and Giambi had the stuff shipped to his parents house. lol Plus Giambi's face is right on the cover.

"Game of Shadows," the explosive new book that puts together a damning dossier on Barry Bonds' steroid usage, also offers some new details of Gary Sheffield's relationship with the slugger and performance-enhancing drugs.

Specifically, Sheffield -- who reportedly testified to the BALCO grand jury in December 2003 that he unknowingly used steroids -- took injectable testosterone and human growth hormone in January 2002, according to the book, written by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. And the Yankees' rightfielder tried to maintain a relationship with Bonds' infamous trainer Greg Anderson, even after Bonds and Sheffield had a falling out.

Newsday obtained a copy of the book, which will be sold in bookstores beginning tomorrow.

In Sheffield's reported testimony, and a subsequent interview with Sports Illustrated, he spoke of using only "The Clear" and "The Cream," the former an oral drug, the latter applied by rubbing on his knees. Those drugs made an "unknowing" defense slightly more feasible, unlike injectable testosterone and HGH, which is also administered through a subcutaneous injection.

Sheffield and Bonds worked out together in the offseasons following 2001 and 2002, and Bonds introduced Sheffield to Anderson. It was a drug calendar kept by Anderson, according to the book, that documented Sheffield's use of HGH and testosterone.

When Bonds and Sheffield cut off communication that second offseason, due to several arguments, Sheffield attempted to obtain The Cream and The Clear through Anderson, the book reports.

But Bonds ordered Anderson not to speak with Sheffield, and he told people in his entourage that he had offered BALCO head Victor Conte $100,000 if he refused to give Sheffield any more drugs.

Jason Giambi's picture is on the book's cover, but he gets off relatively easy, as most of the details of his relationship with Bonds and BALCO had been publicized through the previous reporting of his grand jury testimony. The book does report that BALCO shipped its drugs -- via Federal Express -- to Giambi's homes in New York and Las Vegas and even his parents' home in Southern California.

lol Bonds is suing the authors NOT because it is untrue, but because they are "trying to profit off of illegal activities". lmao

I bought my copy yesterday at Sam's club. Stupid B&N wanted 24$ I got it for 14.

Who cares.

Bonds is so dumb. About a fan who threw a syringe at him, he said: "If that's what they want to do, embarrass themselves, then that's on them," Bonds said. "That has nothing to do with me at all."

Yeah the fan should of course be more embarrassed than Bonds and indeed it had "nothing to do" with Bonds. lol Obviously the fan didn;'t randomly do it, Bonds doing steroids is why thus yes it had to do with him.

For once I agree with you 100%

You always do.

What a joke. Jesse Jackson actually used the syringe episode to say Bonds' life was in danger. A TOY syringe with no needle was life threatening.

And to top that off the Padres are RIDICULOUS for closing off the left-field corner and not allow fans there during the series becuase they weee "behaving inappropriately" to poor Barry Bonds.