Sheffield describes relationship with Bonds; Balco

Crown Publishing has provided the upcoming Garry Sheffield autobiography to the the New York Times. In it, Sheffield denies any steroid use and describes his relationship with Barry Bonds and Balco Labratories.

“I’ve never touched a strength-building steroid in my life — and never will,” Sheffield said in the book. “The proof is in pictures and stats.”

According to the book, after agreeing to train with Bonds in Northern California after the 2001 season, Sheffield grew tired of Bonds’s uncompromising control over their workout routine. He nevertheless agreed when Bonds said he would give him “vitamins” from the Balco founder Victor Conte Jr. Sheffield said that Conte gave the vitamins to Greg Anderson, Bonds’s trainer, who gave them to him.