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The definitive, deeply revelatory, and wildly dramatic storyline of the Alex Rodriguez and Biogenesis scandal, co-written by the reporter who broke the storyline. All Porter Fischer needed was the $4,000 Tony Bosch owed him. But Bosch wouldn't normally pay him back again, so he swiped Bosch's Biogenesis ledgers as security. Fischer eventually reviewed the lists of clients and treatment ideas discovered in the ledgers and noticed what he really got: evidence that major and minimal sports figures came up to the Miami antiaging medical center for anabolic steroids, individuals hgh, and other illegitimate drugs. That included one of the greatest sluggers in modern football history: three-time MVP Alex Rodriguez. When Fischer exhibited those notebooks to Tim Elfrink, an investigative reporter at Miami New Times, it sparked one of the wildest - and costliest - activities scandals ever. In Blood vessels Sport, Elfrink groups up with Gus Garcia-Roberts, an investigative reporter at New York's Newsday, to finally tell the full storyline. A-Rod, an obscenely proficient and rich, self-destructive man, is one of the book's central statistics. The tale is rooted in the unique tropical lawlessness of Miami, a city populated with muscle-bulging crooks, spray-tanned imitation doctors, and millionaire sports athletes looking for any chemical advantage. And it's really a chronicle of America's latest mad quest for a fountain of youth - a billion-dollar obsession with HGH, a medicine with uncertain benefits, and even hazier dangers supported by a mountain of lobbyist us dollars. Seven years after Game of Shadows let viewers experience the character types and episode inside baseball's performance-enhancing-drug scourge, Blood vessels Sport will demonstrate that the steroid age never finished. It evolved.
