Jose canseco biography steroids
1 Amassing borderline Hall of Fame numbers with home runs and 1, runs batted in during a year major-league career, the former American League Rookie....
José Canseco Capas Jr. (born July 2, ) is a Cuban-American former professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who played 17 seasons in Major.
Juiced (book)
Book by Jose Canseco
Author | Jose Canseco |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Regan Books |
Publication date | 2005 |
ISBN | 0-06-074640-8 |
Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big is a 2005 book by Jose Canseco and his personal account of steroid usage in Major League Baseball.
The book is autobiographical, and it focuses on Canseco's days as a major leaguer, his marriages, his daughter, and off-field incidents including his barroom brawl in 2001. The book deals primarily with anabolic steroids, drawing upon the personal experiences of Canseco.
He takes personal credit for introducing steroids to baseball and names former teammates Mark McGwire, Juan González, Rafael Palmeiro, Iván Rodríguez, and Jason Giambi as fellow steroid users. He also believes he was blackballed by baseball when Bud Selig decided that the league needed to be cleaned up.
One of Juiced's central precepts is that steroid use is not in and of