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In Defense of A-Roid

Fouled Off

Even Rodriguez bashers should recognize that a new book about him and doping in baseball misses the point (and if you think the problem is bloated stats, you missed it, too).

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There are no heroes in Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts’s Blood Sport. By the time you have plowed through the 400-plus pages of lies, hypocrisy, betrayal, and shady dealings by players, trainers, phony doctors, baseball officials, private detectives, and even government investigators, you may be ready to swear off professional...

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