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  José Canseco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canseco continued to be productive, but after 1991 when he hit 44 homeruns his career hit a plateau, never accomplishing what many expected he was capable of in the face of frequent injuries and controversy.
That same season, Canseco suffered further indignity and ridicule when he asked to pitch during a runaway loss; he injured his arm, underwent Tommy John surgery, and was lost for the remainder of the season.
Canseco also claimed that up to 85% of major league players took steroids, a figure disputed by many in the game but which approximated the estimate given by former player and admitted steroid user Ken Caminiti, who had died in 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jose_Canseco   (1045 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - Report: Canseco admits to using steroids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jose Canseco admitted in meetings with potential book publishers this week in New York that he used steroids while he was playing in the majors, his literary agent confirmed in a story in Friday's Wall Street Journal.
Canseco also added that some of the major leaguers he helped procure the drugs for were still playing.
Canseco announced his retirement May 14, leaving the game with 462 home runs, 1,407 RBI and a.266 batting average in 1,887 games with seven teams.
espn.go.com /mlb/news/2002/0606/1391783.html   (598 words)

  
 Jose Canseco | BaseballLibrary.com
Canseco was a baseball giant in size, potential, and gossip, and became the first member of the 40-40 club when he was a mere 23 years old, winning the MVP award that year in a landslide.
In August 1992 Canseco was in the middle of a subpar (by his standards) year; with just 22 homers, he seemed apathetic on the field and in the clubhouse.
Canseco was limited to a platoon DH role, one that he despised, and though he received a warm reception at his former battleground, he was on the Anaheim Angels the following spring.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Canseco_Jose.stm   (3772 words)

  
 Boston.com / Sports / Baseball / Canseco has strong opinions on steroid issue
Jose Canseco doesn't believe the recent claims of Major League Baseball that only 5-7 percent of all big leaguers tested positive for steroids.
Canseco, who said he lost 30 pounds because of stress, was released Aug. 25, but he remains under house arrest.
Canseco is now claiming his urine sample was misprocessed by the testing laboratories and his lawyer, Robert Saunooke, is attempting to recoup the money Canseco said he lost out on while incarcerated.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2003/11/23/canseco_has_strong_opinions_on_steroid_issue   (1895 words)

  
 An Argument for José: Why José Canseco Should Get Serious Consideration for the Hall of Fame
Canseco can launch baseballs into regions of the stadium where fans never expect to catch a souvenir, and many of his blasts are legendary.
Canseco was, without question, the best outfielder in the game and probably the best overall player in the game from the late 80s to the early 90s.
Canseco was now limited to designated hitter duties for the most part and, when he would make an occasional appearance in the outfield, he wasn't the same.
www.psacard.com /articles/article2366.chtml   (2937 words)

  
 CBS News | Steroid-User Canseco Names Names | February 15, 2005 21:00:01
Jose Canseco, variously called "The Bad Boy of Baseball," or "The Godfather of Steroids," has written a much-talked-about book he calls "Juiced” that purports to tell the truth about his own use of anabolic steroids and human growth hormones, and the same about other top players in Major League Baseball.
Canseco writes about his 16-year career as a Major League ball player, and he says that from his first season, to his last in 2001, he used illegal anabolic steroids and human growth hormones.
Canseco's alleged character flaws are many — including greed, which is evidenced by the fact that he charged his fans $2,500 a day to spend time with him at his home when he was under house arrest for parole violation.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/02/10/60minutes/main673138.shtml   (2277 words)

  
 Jose Canseco and Steroids: Is He a Nut Job or a Prophet?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jose Canseco is depicted on the cover of his autobiography, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big, wearing a fl, blank uniform, a fitting image for a former superstar disowned by a league that wishes he’d disappear.
Canseco’s advocacy of steroid use, more than the gossipy accusations about Mark McGwire shooting up in a bathroom stall or Jason Giambi being “The Most Obvious Juicer in the Game” — as entertaining as they may be — are what makes Juiced a truly inflammatory work.
Jose Canseco is about to become an even bigger pariah than he already is for pointing this out.
www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/fan_interference/0760_jose_canseco_steroids_nut_job_prophet.html   (1617 words)

  
 COURTTV.COM - TRIALS - Steroid violation may land Canseco in prison
Canseco's most recent legal problems — he was arrested on domestic violence and battery charges in the past — began at the South Beach nightclub Halloween night 2001.
Canseco, wearing a "biker" costume, and his date, dressed as an "Indian" in a feathered skirt and bikini, were toasting the holiday with Canseco's twin brother, Ozzie, also a former pro baseball player, and his fiancee.
Canseco initially defended his actions, saying he needed to defend his date, but a year after the fight, he pleaded guilty to one count of felony aggravated battery with great bodily harm and received three years' probation and was ordered to take anger management classes.
www.courttv.com /trials/canseco/071803_ctv.html   (579 words)

  
 Jose Canseco Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Jose Canseco was born on Thursday, July 2, 1964, in Havana, Cuba.
Canseco was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 2, 1985, with the Oakland Athletics, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
Jose Canseco's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Jose Canseco baseball statistics page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=cansejo01   (224 words)

  
 New York Daily News - Baseball - End Zone: Jose: You're out!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canseco says he believes McGwire put the bottle of the steroid "pre-cursor" in his locker so it would be found, thus creating a smokescreen for his extensive use of illegal steroids.
Canseco had sex with hundreds of women - most players, he says, cheat on their wives - but clears the air about his most famous relationship: Canseco says he never had sex with Madonna, although he did spend a night making out with the Material Girl in her Manhattan apartment.
Canseco claims he began counseling Rodriguez, Palmeiro and Gonzalez on steroid use in 1992, after he was traded by the A's to Texas.
www.nydailynews.com /sports/baseball/story/278201p-238361c.html   (1318 words)

  
 The Juice and I - Jose Canseco and steroids, a love story. By Bryan Curtis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canseco claims that while he was playing for the Oakland A's in the late 1980s, he and teammate Mark McGwire would lock themselves in a bathroom stall and inject each other with steroids.
Canseco was 6 feet 4 inches and weighed in the neighborhood of 250 pounds; McGwire was 6 feet 5 inches and adding beef like an Arby's franchise—for the two of them to squeeze into a men's room stall must have presented something of a geometric challenge.
Canseco, who was born in Cuba, was a rarity in 1988: a Latin baseball superstar.
slate.msn.com /id/2113745   (1632 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Book Review: Jose Canseco’s Juiced
Jose felt he was always second to his twin Ozzie who had more athletic talent, and he looked down upon his own skinny body.
Although Canseco eventually felt that he needed steroids to have a fair chance, the story of his early success in professional baseball is written to the script of clean, humble living and sheer determination.
Canseco says he was widely known as “The Chemist,” and “The Godfather of Steroids,” whom players would approach for advice about how to best use the substance.
english.epochtimes.com /news/5-3-19/27181.html   (1064 words)

  
 Jose Canseco | The BASEBALL Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canseco was the first player to hit 30 or more homers in each of his first three seasons...
Upon Canseco's call-up in September, Collins was relegated to pimch-hitting and pinch-running.
Canseco was routinely making mental mistakes on the field, either on the basepaths or in the outfield.
www.thebaseballpage.com /past/pp/cansecojose   (512 words)

  
 Jose Canseco Memories
Jose was also a controversial player who seemed to be a little cocky at times - I was at a Red Sox game once and when the fans started chanting "steroids," Jose turned to them and flexed his bicep...
Jose was off balance and had a really weird swing - he literally hit the ball with only one hand on the bat, and it just carried and carried and carried...
Jose was there stretching and jogging but he told the field security guys to tell us he was not going to sign.
www.canseconet.com /memories.htm   (11665 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Juiced : Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canseco readily admits that he was never the most talented of athletes, and that he never really had the drive to be a star until he made a promise of greatness to his dying mother.
Canseco also brushes over his marriages and the vast majority of his playing career (this is not a book that talks about the game between the lines).
Jose Canseco is best known for several things: A fly ball bouncing off his noggin and landing over the fence, dating Madonna, having numerous run-ins with the law, being the first man to ever hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in the same season, his tape measure home runs, and his bulging biceps.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060746408?v=glance   (2816 words)

  
 ZNet |Economy | Jose Canseco: "The Chemist" Comes Clean
Canseco is without a defender in baseball, he has serious money problems, and carries a rap sheet as long as his loping swing.
Canseco claims that Bush smirked his way through his ownership tenure, as syringes were passed around the locker room like a Christmas at Courtney Love's house.
Canseco's accusation got so much play that The White House had to issue an "official denial", from Bush press secretary and simpering lickspittle Scott McClellan "If there was [rampant steroid use on the Rangers], he was not aware of it at the time," McClellan harrumphed.
www.zmag.org /content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=10&ItemID=7261   (1132 words)

  
 ESPN.com - MLB - Canseco book: He injected Mac
Jose Canseco's claims of steroid abuse by former teammates including Mark McGwire, far right, have stirred outrage in the baseball world.
Canseco writes that he personally injected Mark McGwire with steroids and that he saw McGwire and Jason Giambi inject each other, according to the paper.
Canseco claims he introduced the performance enhancers to Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez, and Juan Gonzalez when he joined the Rangers in 1992.
sports.espn.go.com /mlb/news/story?id=1985653   (1150 words)

  
 SI.com - Writers - Arash Markazi: Hard to take Canseco, his new tell-all book seriously - Thursday February 24, 2005 ...
Throughout the book, Canseco talks about racism in baseball and how he "was very aware that baseball was closed to a young Latino like me" and that the barriers to breaking into the major leagues were almost impossible for Latinos to get around.
Canseco also talks about racism and hypocrisy in the "white media" that covered him during his career, but comes off as the biggest hypocrite of all.
It's hard to read Canseco's recollection of events and not picture a broken-down old man at the end of the bar bragging that he had done this and that and would have been the greatest of all time but was brought down by "the man."
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/writers/arash_markazi/02/24/canseco   (858 words)

  
 Ivan Rodriguez, Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Major League Baseball - CBS SportsLine.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canseco said in the book, which is being published next week, that he, Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi shot steroids together in the bathroom stall at the Oakland Coliseum, the New York Daily News reported last weekend.
Canseco also said he introduced Texas teammates Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez and Juan Gonzalez to steroids after being traded to the Rangers in 1992.
Jose Canseco's allegations are baffling to his former Oakland boss, Sandy Alderson.
cbs.sportsline.com /mlb/story/8186637   (659 words)

  
 Canseconet.com - The Jose Canseco Site
There are photos of Jose from when he played with the A's, the Rangers, the Red Sox, the Blue Jays, the Devil Rays, the Yankees, the Angels, the Newark Bears, the White Sox, the Expos, and even the Charlotte Knights.
The Jose Canseco Audio and Video section of Canseconet.com is where you can listen to LIVE game broadcasts and other classic clips.
You listen to Jose's classic 5th deck home run from the 1989 playoffs in Toronto or to a number of clips of Jose talking.
www.canseconet.com   (584 words)

  
 SportsFilter | Jose Canseco, Hero
Jose Canseco, Hero: A fascinating op-ed piece by Michael Chabon, who finds much more to appreciate than one would superficially expect.
In 1989 Jose Canseco was drilling ALCS moon-shots into the 5th level of the SkyDome.
"Canseco has been described as a charmer, and a clown, but in fact he is a rogue, a genuine one, and genuine rogues are rare, inside baseball and out.
www.sportsfilter.com /comments.cfm/4238   (1372 words)

  
 MSNBC - Jose Canseco: ‘This book is devastating’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canseco's allegations of rampant steroid use has stunned the world of baseball.  The former MVP and six-time all-star admits that steroids were the key to his success, but he doesn't stop there.  He also names some of baseball's most recognizable superstars as steroid users, including former home-run king Mark McGwire and current Yankee Jason Giambi.
Canseco:  Well, I don't think [they] have really read this book completely because there is a huge human interest story involved here.
They say either Jose Canseco is purely out for money, that he's a guy who needs money, has shown in the past he's willing to do certain things to get money and this is all about selling books and he doesn't care whose reputation he tarnishes.  How do you feel about that?
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6448213/did/7012671   (526 words)

  
 Jose Canseco: Juiced, Wild Times, Rampant Roids Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Told by Jose Canseco, the famous baqseball players, Jose will talk about his experiences in baseball, and reportedly will tell a lot of secrets that no one really wants to admit.
Canseco shattered the mold of the out-of-shape baseball player and ushered in a new era of superathletes who looked like bodybuilders, made outrageous salaries, and enjoyed rock-star lifestyles.
Canseco made himself a guinea pig of the performance-enhancing drugs that were only just beginning to infiltrate the American underground.
www.getbig.com /news/2005-01/020605canseco.htm   (552 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Canseco's story brings varied responses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canseco says baseball fllisted him for his outspokenness and did so as he closed in on the magical homer plateau.
La Russa has said McGwire, whom Canseco claims he injected with steroids, is as pure as a baby's behind when it comes to using illegally obtained, performance-enhancing drugs.
Canseco isn't the brightest bulb on the scoreboard, but that's not why I don't respect Jose.
www.usatoday.com /sports/columnist/saraceno/2005-02-22-saraceno-canseco_x.htm   (862 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Dodgers tell Canseco they're not interested   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canseco, 39, last played in the majors in 2001, when he hit.258 with 16 homers for the White Sox.
Canseco, 39, participated in an open tryout with the team Monday.
Canseco was told beforehand there was a 99% chance the Dodgers wouldn't sign him, but he participated anyway.
www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/2004-03-01-canseco-tryout_x.htm   (367 words)

  
 Canseco Is Easy to Read, Hard to Believe (washingtonpost.com)
Whether the claims are true or not, Canseco's motives are so tainted that his charges are doubly suspect.
Finally, just to tag every base, something he occasionally forgot as a player, Canseco claims that the owner of the Rangers in those early-90s days "had to have been aware" of the rampant steroid use on his team.
The way Canseco's luck has been running, he'll be lucky if the book ever hits the shelves, although Barry Bonds alone ought to constitute a micro-market.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A6271-2005Feb7.html   (736 words)

  
 ESPN.com: SPORTSBUSINESS - Canseco offers the company of himself for your cash
MIAMI -- Jose Canseco plans to profit while under house arrest for his part in a 2001 nightclub brawl.
Canseco's Web site is accepting bids to spend an afternoon with the 1988 American League MVP.
Canseco will provide roundtrip limousine service from the airport, but overnight accommodations and airfare aren't included.
espn.go.com /sportsbusiness/news/2003/0415/1539387.html   (432 words)

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