Kriti Mehrotra
With Netflix’s ‘Untold: Hall of Shame’ exploring the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative-involved sports doping case that baffled the nation in the 2000s, we get a documentary unlike any other. After all, it involves not only archival footage but also exclusive interviews to really shine a light upon almost everyone implicated in the matter, along with their motives behind the steroid use. Amongst those to thus be named here is actually professional baseball athlete Barry Bonds’ trainer Greg Anderson — so now, if you simply wish to learn more about him, here’s what we know.
Who is Greg Anderson?
Although reportedly born in California in February 1966, Greg unfortunately did not have the most comfortable, happy, or vibrant childhood owing to the fact he lost his father at the tender age of 10. However, the truth is he did find a different sort of joy shortly after in the sport of baseball, which is how he came across Barry while they were in middle school and sparked a lifelong friendship. But alas, it soon became evident only the latter had what it took to turn pro, inadvertently resulting in the former beginning his obsession with weight-lifting/gymming once he was in college.
Therefore, by the mid-1980s, Greg was ostensibly spending most of his time at a gym just a few blocks away from the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) in San Mateo County, California. That’s how he evolved into a weight trainer before gradually becoming part of Barry’s fitness team and then allegedly turning his oldest friend to high-performance drugs (anabolic steroids) in 1998. As per records, he likely provided the same to fellow professional baseball players Gary Sheffield and Jason Giambi as well, all the while training BALCO-affiliated track star Tim Montgomery too.
It hence comes as no surprise that Greg was explicitly named in the IRS’ doping investigation into BALCO as well as its associates, ultimately driving him to plead guilty on July 15, 2005. As a result, the 39-year-old was later sentenced to three months in federal prison plus three months on house arrest on one count each of conspiracy to distribute steroids and money laundering. Yet, it turns out his legal troubles were far from over — he was held in contempt of court thrice over five years for his refusal to testify at Barry’s perjury trial, stemming from the latter claiming he didn’t know he was using steroids.
Greg Anderson is Living a Quiet Life Now
According to reports, for the contempt of court charges, Greg was detained at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, from July 5, 2006-July 20, 2006, August 28, 2006-November 15, 2007, and then finally from March 22, 2011-April 8, 2011. We should also mention that on January 28, 2009, federal agents raided his mother-in-law’s home on suspicion of tax crimes, which his attorney implied could be a technique to get him to testify, but it didn’t work. In fact, despite the years gone by, Greg has never once publicly spoken of his alleged involvement with BALCO or Barry’s purported steroid use — and he’s determined to never break this silence either.
Coming to Greg’s current standing, from what we can tell, the California native prefers to remain well away from the limelight these days, so all we can assume is that he’s happily surrounded by his loved ones. Though, as per the last reports, it is believed he continues to serve as a weight trainer near his home, all the while serving as a coach to a youth baseball team in suburban San Francisco, Northern California.
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