In recent history, baseball has been shaken to its core by the use of performance-enhancing drugs among some of the game's biggest stars. The most intriguing question of this era is what who exactly led these men to genetically modify bodies? One of the most popular books resulting from the steroid era is the 2006 book Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sport (New York: Gotham Books, 2007), by Mark Fainaru - Wada and Lance Williams. Fainaru-Wada and Williams were reporters for the San Francisco Chronicle, placing them at the center of the scandal involving San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds, who is considered by many to be the poster child of the era of steroids. This is a well researched and written book that focuses on the investigation into the BALCO steroid distributor and the actors who were known customers, particularly Bonds. In many ways, the book is presented almost like evidence in a trial, with Fainaru-Wada and Williams serving as the prosecution. One of the book's central ideas is that Bonds and other players knowingly took steroids in order to gain the wealth and fame that accompanied men like Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, who were thought to be, and whose they have since been proven to be men like Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. followed PEDs in the late 1990s. The book confirmed to many that Barry Bonds had indeed cheated in baseball. Another source to consider when examining the steroid era is Jose Canseco, whose book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big. (New York: Regan Books, 2005), gives a first-hand account of Canseco's steroid era, which Canseco admits played a large role in it. The book goes so far as to name the names of m...... middle of paper ......f that he had actually bet on baseball. Davies then focuses on Rose's years of denial, leading up to his eventual admission that he had actually bet on baseball. Davies connects the Pete Rose scandal to that of the Black Sox, noting that the discovery and subsequent banishment of Pete Rose for his gambling had "underscored the fact that organized baseball had in fact succeeded in eliminating game-fixing from baseball since the World Series of 1919”. It reminds us once again of the everlasting effects that the Black Sox scandal, 60 years before Pete Rose, had on sports. Pete Rose is a prime example and a shining example of the consequences that cheating can have on players, even of the caliber of Pete Rose, whose greed and demons led to his eventual downfall in the eyes of baseball and the general public..