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"The premise that the media is going after Bonds is false," Fainaru-Wada says.

"People are reporting on a federal investigation that is about steroids, in which Bonds is a major part of the investigation.

We haven't had anyone characterize (the book) in any racial terms.

"But this is not a Barry Bonds book.

It was born from a federal investigation in which he was a part." Yet many African-American players in baseball believe the constant allegations can be construed as racially motivated.

"It's so obvious what's going on," Minnesota Twins center fielder Torii Hunter says.

"He has never failed a drug test and said he never took steroids, but everybody keeps trying to disgrace him.

How come nobody even talks about Mark McGwire anymore?

Or (Rafael) Palmeiro (who tested positive for steroids in 2005)?

"Whenever I go home (to Pine Bluff, Ark.), I hear people say all of the time, 'Baseball just doesn't like black people.

Here's the greatest hitter in the game, and they're scrutinizing him like crazy.' It's killing me because you know it's about race." Going strong past 40 Before the period of alleged drug usage detailed in Game of Shadows, Bonds' career high in home runs was 46, achieved in 1993 at age 28.

From 2000 to 2004, between the ages of 35 and 39, he averaged 51.6 home runs a season and hit his record 73 ...

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