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Bonds used steroids since '98: book

According to an upcoming book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants used a vast array of performance-enhancing drugs -- including steroids and human growth hormone -- for at least five seasons beginning in 1998.

Barry Bonds on the cover of the Sports Illustrated March 13 issue.

An excerpt from Game of Shadows, which lays out extensive details of the slugger's alleged doping program, appeared in the March 13 issue of Sports Illustrated.

The 41-year-old Bonds, who testified before a California federal grand jury investigating steroid use by top athletes, has repeatedly denied using performance-enhancing drugs.

Authors Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams say that Bonds was using two undetectable designer steroids plus insulin, human growth hormone and other performance enhancers by 2001, when he hit 73 home runs to break Mark McGwire's single-season record of 70 set in 1998.

Baseball did not ban performance-enhancing drugs until after the 2002 season.

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