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SHUT OUT
WINNER OF SPITBALL MAGAZINE'S 2002 CASEY AWARD
FOR BEST BASEBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR
With a new introduction by celebrated baseball writer Roger Kahn and a new afterword by the author, updating John Henry's first year of ownership after nearly six decades of the Yawkey dynasty, the legacy of the late Will McDonough, and the author's return to his native Boston after a seventeen-year absence, Shut Out has reopened the discussion of baseball, race, and Boston with a new candor.

 "Wholly original…Someone finally has found the discipline and energy and courage to write this marvelous book….if I were going to use baseball metaphors to describe Bryant’s book, I’d say dinger, over the wall, a home run." ~Roger Kahn

"Sport is not always a metaphor . . . but in this instance the story of race and the Red Sox is an exceedingly accurate mirror of the story of race and Boston, and thus race and America."
~Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

"One of the best baseball books I have ever read, and in fact one of the best non-fiction books I have read in years. To simply call it a baseball book is to do it a disservice, in that people interested in American history, race relations in America, and simply human nature might not read it, which would be their loss." ~Lisa Winston, USA Today's Sports Weekly
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JUICING THE GAME
A GROUNDBREAKING HISTORY OF STEROID USE IN
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Juicing the Game is the definitive account of both Major League Baseball’s steroid scandal and the era it has irreversibly tainted. Combining award-winning journalist Howard Bryant’s hard-hitting investigative reporting with revealing profiles of and interviews with the era’s crucial figures, Juicing the Game is the first book to look at the issue from all sides, tracing its history and plotting its future, while exploring the confluence of cultural, political and financial factors and the paralyzing lack of leadership that allowed the influence of drugs on the sport to get so far out of hand.

"A smart and savvy appraisal…Mr. Bryant’s book is informed by a deep knowledge of baseball history. And it’s valuable not only for its lucid, unvarnished account of the steroid scandal and its long-term consequences for the game, but also for putting that scandal in context. Powerful and unsettling." ~Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Howard Bryant knows more of the subject of steroids than any other reporter I've come across. Juicing the Game is both encyclopedic and a fascinating read." ~Mike Wallace, 60 Minutes

"If ever there was a 'must read' sports book of its time, this is it. Because of the undeniable truths it tells, Bryant's book is essential reading. His argument depends less on statistics and figures than on his willingness to uncover what many people suspected and more than a few knew to be true. " ~Larry Moffi, The Washington Post
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