Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about JOSE CANSECO!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: José Canseco Capas Jr. is a Cuban-American former major league baseball outfielder and designated hitter . he won the Rookie of the Year (1986) and Most Valuable Player award (19 Canseco averaged 40 home runs, 120 RBIs and 102 runs scored every 162 games . he was the first player to hit 30 home runs for 4 different clubs; Oakland 33 in 1986, Texas 31 in 1994, canseco admitted using performance-enhancing drugs during his playing career . he has a twin brother Ozzie, who is also a former major league player . when fidel Castro came into power in 1959, the younger Jose Canseco failed to make the varsity team until his senior year . he graduated in 1982 and was drafted by the Oakland athletics . canseco started the 1985 season with the Class-AA Huntsville canseco was nicknamed “the natural,” with some analysts saying he was the best prospect since Willie Mays . he made his major league debut on September 2 and struck out in his one at-bat against the canseco played in 29 games in the major leagues in 1985 . he established himself in 1986, his first full season, with 33 home runs and 117 RBIs . in 1987, mark McGwire joined Canseco he went on to record 42 home runs and 40 steals becoming the first player in baseball history to hit the 40-40 mark in a single season . the street in front of his former high school was named after him but was later in 1989, Canseco missed 97 games of the regular season . he was voted as one of the starting outfielders for the American League All-Star squad . in barely 65 games played, he hit 17 he hit for a .357 average with a home run in Game 3 of the 1989 World Series . the 1989 Series was interrupted before Game 3 by a major earthquake . he came back to form in 1990 the A’s returned to the World Series once again, but were swept by the Cincinnati Reds in four games . Canseco went 1-for-14 in the series with a home run in Game 2 . by 1991 Canseco was voted to start his 4th Mid Summer Classic in 5 years but he was unable to play due to injury . he averaged 32 home runs a year, had 100+ RBIs 5 times, this week in baseball rated in 1998 as the greatest blooper of the show’s first 21 years . the cap Canseco was wearing on that play is in the seth swirsky collection . he canseco injured his arm, underwent Tommy John surgery, and was lost for the remainder of the season . he finished the ’93 season hitting .256 with 10 home runs and 46 RBIs in 60 games . Canseco stole 15 bases and posted a .282 batting average . he was named the sporting news comeback player of the year in 1994 . the red sox won the AL East division to advance to Canseco hit 26 home runs in the first half of the 1996 season . he was sidelined during August and part of September due to a back injury . canseco’s 23 home runs that season gave him he finished the season playing 151 games, his highest in 8 years . he hit a career-high 46 home runs, 3rd best in the AL, and stole 29 bases . won the AL Silver Slug in 1999, he signed a three-year contract with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays . the contract included a clause stating that if Canseco were to be elected to the hall of fame he would be depict Canseco played in the MLBPA organized Big League Challenge home run derby in Las Vegas . he won the tournament, defeating Rafael Palmeiro in the final . by august, he was claimed off waivers by the despite this achievement Canseco later called his Yankees tenure “the worst time of [his] life” he spent half of the season with the Newark Bears before joining the Chicago White Sox . as the White So canseco was expected to be their left fielder and DH during inter-league play . he was released prior to the regular season . Canseco officially retired from Major League baseball in 2002 . canseco signed a short team deal with the laredo broncos of the united baseball league . he served as bench coach and designated hitter . in the beginning of august 2012, he left the Worcester canseco signed with the Fort Worth Cats of the United League to start the 2013 season . he also claimed that up to 85% of major league players took steroids . canseco’s book became a new york times bestseller . palmeiro was suspended for 10 days by Major League Baseball after testing positive for steroids . on december 13, 2007, José Canseco and Jorge Delgad canseco reached a deal for his sequel to Juiced . the sequel is titled Vindicated, which hit bookstores by Opening Day 2008 . in 2010 Canseco spoke out against PEDs that were covered by ESPN and other news outlets . he criticized their effectiveness overall: “these kids don’t need steroids to become players” canseco has an identical twin “my twin brother used the same chemicals, same workouts, the same nutrition” “if steroids are that great it would have made him a superstar,” says Canseco . he says he didn’t want to use Canseco has appeared on 60 Minutes, “boomer and carton” and “the big idea” he has a film cameo playing himself in the 2017 basketball drama Slamma Jamma as a judge 1.1% of ballots, failing to reach 5% threshold needed to stay on ballot for another year . canseco claims to have black belts in kung fu and taekwondo . fight took place the 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Sikahema knocked out the 6.93 m” Canseco in the first round . he claims to hold black belts in karate and canseco quit the show on the April 3, 2011, citing his father’s ailing health . he later announced on twitter that his father died shortly after he left the show . Canseco did earn $25,000 for TMZ reported canseco was in talks to star in the show, A League of His Own . he provided the foreword to the novel Air Force Gator 2: Scales of Justice by Dan Ryckert the visual poem describes the two baseball players’ careers and rampant steroid use in the 1980s . on April 11, 1989, Canseco was arrested in California for carrying a loaded semi-automatic pistol in his car canseco and his brother, Ozzie, were charged with two counts of aggravated battery . the brothers both pleaded guilty and received both probation and community service . Canseco spent a month in jail without bail 2008 documentary chronicles Canseco’s attempts to end his steroid use . he regrets ever writing his tell-all books and naming former teammates as users . in 2014, he returned to the Oakland Col canseco was named as a suspect in a rape allegation in Las Vegas . he broke the news himself on twitter, posting pictures and defamatory information about his accuser . on June 7,