Barry Bonds Convicted: Two Books Tell The Backstory

First Posted: 04/14/11 11:57 AM ET Updated: 06/14/11 06:12 AM ET

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Los Angeles Times:

Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice Wednesday in Federal Court in San Francisco. A mistrial was declared on two other counts.
The case, of course, was about performance-enhancing drugs. Our sibling blog L.A. Now explains: "Bonds was charged with four federal felony counts for denying under oath to a grand jury in 2003 that he had knowingly used steroids or human growth hormones and for maintaining that his personal trainer, Greg Anderson, had never injected him."

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