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His new york times bestselling memoir juiced met a firestorm of criticism and outrage from the. Jose canseco books list of books by author jose canseco. Canseco also claimed that up to 85% of major league. Join facebook to connect with jose canseco and others you may know. A handsome first edition, first printing signed and dated by the former major league baseball player jose conseco on the title page jose canseco 4908. Jul 03, 2008 canseco s second book, titled vindicated. This should be the book of a man soaking up the acclaim of the world, a man. Jose, i wanted to take the time to let you know how much i enjoyed your book. The book is autobiographical, and it focuses on cansecos days as a major leaguer, his marriages, his daughter, and offfield incidents including his barroom brawl in 2001.
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In the book, canseco claims that he used steroids with mark mcgwire, rafael palmeiro. Jose canseco was born in havana, cuba, and immigrated to miami with his family in the 1970s. Mar 26, 2008 the cover of jose cansecos second book, vindicated. In 2005, jose canseco blew the lid off major league baseballs steroid scandaland no one believed him. Often called the bad boy of baseball, jose canseco shocked many people when he released his book, juiced, which was an account of his and other mlb stars use of human growth hormone and anabolic steroids. Big names, big liars and the battle to save baseball. Jose canseco says he educated alex rodriguez about steroids and even introduced him to a friendly steroids dealer, but arod returned the favor by trying to bed his wife, the former bash. Not really a seo related book, but i used to watch a ton of baseball and sold baseball cards in high school, so i was interested in reading jose cansecos juiced. Jose cansecos followup book to juiced is basically a rehash of the original book with a couple of more players named to be ped users. Big names, big liars, and the battle to save baseball by jose canseco online at alibris.
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