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One of the most electrifying and controversial athletes ever to step onto the baseball diamond shares the untold story of his rise to fame and fall from grace, including a never-before-seen look behind the curtains into the history, dangers, truths, and lies about baseball's dark secret: steroids.

When Jose Canseco burst into the Major Leagues in the 1980s, he changed the sport-in more ways than one. No player before him possessed his mixture of speed and power, which allowed him to become the first man in history to belt 40+ home runs and swipe 40+ bases in the same season. He won the Rookie of the Year, the MVP award, and a World Series ring. He was a dynamo on the field, and a magnet ...

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One of the most electrifying and controversial athletes ever to step onto the baseball diamond shares the untold story of his rise to fame and fall from grace, including a never-before-seen look behind the curtains into the history, dangers, truths, and lies about baseball's dark secret: steroids.

When Jose Canseco burst into the Major Leagues in the 1980s, he changed the sport-in more ways than one. No player before him possessed his mixture of speed and power, which allowed him to become the first man in history to belt 40+ home runs and swipe 40+ bases in the same season. He won the Rookie of the Year, the MVP award, and a World Series ring. He was a dynamo on the field, and a magnet for trouble off it. From his frequent run-ins with police, to his wild and often highly public love life, Canseco broke the mold of the big-time athlete and ushered in a new era of super-athletes with outrageous salaries and rock-star lifestyles. But behind the gaudy stats and the glitz and glamour of his public life, Canseco cultivated a dark secret, one that would alter the game of baseball and the way we view our heroes forever. Canseco made himself a guinea pig of the blossoming performance-enhancing drugs movement that was only just beginning to take hold in Major League Baseball. Anabolic steroids, human growth hormones-Canseco mixed, matched, and experimented to such a degree that he became known throughout the league as "The Chemist." He passed his knowledge on to trainers and fellow players, and before long performance-enhancing drugs were running rampant throughout the league.

Today, this issue has crept out of the closet and burst into the headlines as players balloon to herculean proportions and hundred-year-old records are not just broken, but demolished. In this shocking autobiography, Canseco sheds light on a life of dizzying highs and debilitating lows-and also provides the answers to questions about steroids and the Major Leagues that millions of sports fans are only now beginning to ask.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780060746414
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 2/28/2006
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 178,354
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.76 (d)

Meet the Author

Jose Canseco was born in Havana, Cuba, and immigrated to Miami in the 1970s. After being drafted by the Oakland Athletics, he went on to win Rookie of the Year, the American League MVP Award, and a World Series ring. In all, he played for seven different teams and ended his baseball career with a total of 462 home runs. Today, Canseco lives a quiet life in California with his daughter, Josie.

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Juiced

Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
By Jose Canseco

HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

Copyright ©2006 Jose Canseco
All right reserved.
ISBN: 0060746416

Chapter One

"You'll Never Add Up to Anything"

I always told Jose and Ozzie,
"Do better next time."
I'm obviously a very serious man.
I never fool around with anything.
But I was never stern or a dictator.
Jose Canseco Sr.,
My father

My dad earned a good living in Cuba during the Batista years, working as a territory manager for Esso Standard Oil. He also picked up a little extra cash working nights as an English teacher at the Professional School of Commerce in Havana. He worked hard and was a good provider for our family. As soon as Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, though, my father was smart enough to know that before long the new leftist system would control the entire country, and that would not be a good thing for people like my father. He figured that everything he had worked for in Cuba would be lost, and he was right, too. Soon after Castro came to power, my father lost his job. Then he lost his house. And then his car.

He was in an unusual position in that he had already spent time in the United States studying English. He had gone to Shreveport, Louisiana, as a teenager and lived with an uncle there forseveral years, starting in 1940, and his time in American schools gave him enough of a grounding in the language to teach it in Cuba. As much as he would have liked to stay in Cuba, his country, he was also comfortable with the idea of diving into a new life in the United States -- if that was his only choice.

So my father notified the Cuban government that he wanted to leave the country, and the government basically answered: Tough luck. There was a serious shortage of skilled professionals, and Castro could not afford to lose white-collar workers like my father. The government announced that such workers would only be allowed to emigrate if a specific replacement could be found to handle their particular job. But no one was available who was qualified to take over my father's job with the oil company. The government wrote him a letter saying that because of his professional ability and expertise, he was not allowed to leave the country until further notice. He would have to wait years for them to change their minds.

My dad was born in 1929, in a town called Regla, on the outskirts of Havana. Both my father's parents had come over from Spain and his father, Inocente, had a big, light-green Packard car that he used to earn a good livelihood. He would load six or seven tourists into the Packard and drive them all over the place showing them the sights of Havana. Back then, baseball and boxing were the top sports in Cuba. My dad used to listen to New York Yankee games on the radio; his favorite players were Babe Ruth and, later, Roger Maris and Joe DiMaggio. But my father was not much of a baseball player himself. He shagged a few balls when he was a boy, but that was about it.

My father met my mother, Barbara, when they were both teenagers in Regla. He had come back from Louisiana and was studying at the Institute of Havana, from which he graduated with a degree in English. They used to go ballroom dancing or take strolls together around the town's central park. Sometimes they would go to the movies to catch the latest Errol Flynn picture or sweeping sagas like Gone With the Wind.

My parents and older sister, Teresa, were living in Regla in July 1964 when my mother gave birth to me and my twin brother, Osvaldo. People like to say that Ozzie and I were like pocket-sized atom bombs when we were babies, but my father says we were actually nice and quiet. People were always fussing over us. They usually had trouble telling the two of us apart because we looked the same and were the exact same size and weight. But I had a birthmark on the back of my hand, so that helped family members know which of us was which.

Those were bad times to be living in Cuba, especially since the government knew my father did not support their system. My father had to wait until the year after Ozzie and I were born for a chance to leave. The Castro government announced in 1965 that it would allow an airlift of people from Varadero, Cuba, to Miami. Ozzie and I were just babies when my parents took us and Teresa to the airport, where we climbed into a small propeller plane. There was only room for about twenty people inside, and apparently it was stuffy. I don't remember any of that, but it was an important day for the family and we heard about it later.

"It was very, very hot inside the plane,"my father used to tell us, looking back on that momentous day.

He would always tell us how sad he was, leaving behind his home country and his parents, and the rest of his family. But he knew he had to do it, and he was eager to start a new life, making the most of his knowledge of English. We were also lucky to have family members living in south Florida, ready to help us out. My Aunt Lilia was there at the airport, waiting to meet us, but first my parents had to go through an inspection. They had no money or identification, but they stripped my father and searched him, and then stripped my mother and searched her, too.

"We had nothing,"my father would tell us.

But he had English, and the work experience to land a good job soon after he arrived in America. He found work as a territory manager for Amoco Oil, which was a good position, but to him it was only a start, and he was always looking for other ways to bring in extra income ...

Continues...

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Juiced
Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big

Chapter One

"You'll Never Add Up to Anything"

I always told Jose and Ozzie,
"Do better next time."
I'm obviously a very serious man.
I never fool around with anything.
But I was never stern or a dictator.
Jose Canseco Sr.,
My father

My dad earned a good living in Cuba during the Batista years, working as a territory manager for Esso Standard Oil. He also picked up a little extra cash working nights as an English teacher at the Professional School of Commerce in Havana. He worked hard and was a good provider for our family. As soon as Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, though, my father was smart enough to know that before long the new leftist system would control the entire country, and that would not be a good thing for people like my father. He figured that everything he had worked for in Cuba would be lost, and he was right, too. Soon after Castro came to power, my father lost his job. Then he lost his house. And then his car.

He was in an unusual position in that he had already spent time in the United States studying English. He had gone to Shreveport, Louisiana, as a teenager and lived with an uncle there for several years, starting in 1940, and his time in American schools gave him enough of a grounding in the language to teach it in Cuba. As much as he would have liked to stay in Cuba, his country, he was also comfortable with the idea of diving into a new life in the United States -- if that was his only choice.

So my father notified the Cuban government that he wanted to leave the country, and the government basically answered: Tough luck. There was a serious shortage of skilled professionals, and Castro could not afford to lose white-collar workers like my father. The government announced that such workers would only be allowed to emigrate if a specific replacement could be found to handle their particular job. But no one was available who was qualified to take over my father's job with the oil company. The government wrote him a letter saying that because of his professional ability and expertise, he was not allowed to leave the country until further notice. He would have to wait years for them to change their minds.

My dad was born in 1929, in a town called Regla, on the outskirts of Havana. Both my father's parents had come over from Spain and his father, Inocente, had a big, light-green Packard car that he used to earn a good livelihood. He would load six or seven tourists into the Packard and drive them all over the place showing them the sights of Havana. Back then, baseball and boxing were the top sports in Cuba. My dad used to listen to New York Yankee games on the radio; his favorite players were Babe Ruth and, later, Roger Maris and Joe DiMaggio. But my father was not much of a baseball player himself. He shagged a few balls when he was a boy, but that was about it.

My father met my mother, Barbara, when they were both teenagers in Regla. He had come back from Louisiana and was studying at the Institute of Havana, from which he graduated with a degree in English. They used to go ballroom dancing or take strolls together around the town's central park. Sometimes they would go to the movies to catch the latest Errol Flynn picture or sweeping sagas like Gone With the Wind.

My parents and older sister, Teresa, were living in Regla in July 1964 when my mother gave birth to me and my twin brother, Osvaldo. People like to say that Ozzie and I were like pocket-sized atom bombs when we were babies, but my father says we were actually nice and quiet. People were always fussing over us. They usually had trouble telling the two of us apart because we looked the same and were the exact same size and weight. But I had a birthmark on the back of my hand, so that helped family members know which of us was which.

Those were bad times to be living in Cuba, especially since the government knew my father did not support their system. My father had to wait until the year after Ozzie and I were born for a chance to leave. The Castro government announced in 1965 that it would allow an airlift of people from Varadero, Cuba, to Miami. Ozzie and I were just babies when my parents took us and Teresa to the airport, where we climbed into a small propeller plane. There was only room for about twenty people inside, and apparently it was stuffy. I don't remember any of that, but it was an important day for the family and we heard about it later.

"It was very, very hot inside the plane,"my father used to tell us, looking back on that momentous day.

He would always tell us how sad he was, leaving behind his home country and his parents, and the rest of his family. But he knew he had to do it, and he was eager to start a new life, making the most of his knowledge of English. We were also lucky to have family members living in south Florida, ready to help us out. My Aunt Lilia was there at the airport, waiting to meet us, but first my parents had to go through an inspection. They had no money or identification, but they stripped my father and searched him, and then stripped my mother and searched her, too.

"We had nothing,"my father would tell us.

But he had English, and the work experience to land a good job soon after he arrived in America. He found work as a territory manager for Amoco Oil, which was a good position, but to him it was only a start, and he was always looking for other ways to bring in extra income ...

Juiced
Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big. Copyright © by Jose Canseco. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Posted December 15, 2010

    What a Great Book!

    To be 100% honest, I felt a tad bit saddened when I finally read the very last page of Juiced by Jose Canseco. The former Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and 6 time all star discusses in his book all about steroids, whether it was what kind, how much, or even who did them. Jose Canseco was really one of the first MLB player to admit to the media that he was using performance enhanceing drugs. The one big aspect that people didn't understand was that it was extremely popular at one time to use steriods only becasue it wasn't illegal. "During that era..." Canseco explains "...if you took steroids, it was almost as if you were to ice your arm after a game now a days.". Steriods actually changed Jose's life, once being a skinny mediocre ball player who fell in the shadows of his twin brother Ozzie to an Cuban version of the Hulk. As a top minor league prospect for the Oakland A's, he was convinced that- exspecially with arthritis, scoliosis, and other diseases - he never would have been a major-league caliber player without the drugs. Jose did do his fair amount of research before investing into steriods, and he also helped his fellow friends in the club house to get involved, like Mark McGwire. Jose not only tells us all about the MLB and its steriod use, but also the story behind his life and why he felt it was a necesity to use steriods. I absolutely loved reading this book. Being a huge baseball fan, I know a lot about the "dark ages" of baseball. To learn the truth from somebody who was there and witnessed everything going around him really intrigued me and made me realize the huge effect of steriods, both the good and bad. I would recommend this book to all sports fans out there. Yes, it does base most of the story in the Major League Baseball atmosphere, but it also makes you realize that a lot more people use it in a varietty of sports, from football to soccer to wresting. Juiced will get you so involved into this story that you will be reading for hours on end and not even realize it!

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  • Posted February 17, 2010

    Juice is bad for you.

    The novel Juiced is a book written by Jose Canseco about his life. He was a great baseball player who devoted his life to becoming a professional baseball player. He did every thing he could do to make it to the Bigs. He had many issues in his life. People were always on him about his love life, also trouble with police and steroid use. As a young kid in the minors he realized that he needed a boost something to give him a edge. One day well at the gym he went and talked to his trainer. His trainer gave him some pills and it all started. He made it to the majors after gaining a lot of power in his swing. He was the first player to have both speed and power. He was the first player to hit 40+ home runs and steel 40+ bases in one season. He won rookie of the year and also a most valuable player award. His team won a world series to with his help. He talked a lot about the struggles of being in the minors and the bigs.
    I really liked this book because of how it was written it didn't hide things. He just said it strait what he did. He told you about how hard it was, which was very motivational to do better and work hard. He did say not to take steroids because that was going to far. That you could do it with out. Helped me feel better about being a small guy who plays tough ball. His writing style was fine because he went through the steps of his life. My dislikes were that he did talk much about what he did as a kid to get where he came to. It could have had more information about steroids and the dangers of taking them. I do not recommend this book for some one who does not know baseball or any sport ,only because they would not know the stress of needing to be bigger.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 3, 2008

    Juiced

    Juiced, written by Jose Canseco, talks about things that happen in Major League Baseball. This book was specifically written about steroid use in baseball, and Jose talks about steroid use in baseball, and about players that he claimed used them, including Mark McGwire, Rafael Palmeiro, and Ivan Rodriguez. This book also talks about daily life on the road as an MLB player, and many of Jose¿s personal experiences in baseball, and life. Jose talks about what it felt like to sit on Madonna¿s lap, to have a ball bounce off his head for a homerun, and use steroids for the first time. He says that despite his hot-head reputation, he is a nice guy, and is fine despite having some bad experiences, like being in jail. The main character of Juiced is the author, Jose Canseco. He is a man who has been through a lot, good and bad, whose experiences make up the bulk of the book. Another important character in this book is Jose¿s father, Jose Canseco Sr. Jose Sr. was very hard on his sons because he wanted them to be their very best, and was very critical of Jose even during his MLB career. Jose¿s mother, Barbara, was the opposite of his father in that she was very nice and not very hard on her sons. Jose loved her very much, and as she was dying, he made a promise to her to become the best athlete in the world. An important passage in this book is when Jose shares his personal view on steroids. He claims,¿ Steroids are here to stay. That¿s a fact. I guarantee it. Steroids are the future. By the time my eight-year-old daughter, Josie, has graduated from high school, a majority of professional athletes- in all sports- will be taking steroids. And believe it or not, that¿s good news.¿ I believe this passage is important to understanding this book because it gives the author¿s opinion on the main topic of the book. Jose believes that steroids,¿ will make sports more exciting and entertaining¿, improve human life, and will make us,¿ live longer and better.¿ This explains the reasons why athletes use steroids: to entertain their fans, and to gain improved health. This idea is important because if you do not understand this, and do not look at Jose¿s opinion with an open mind, then you will not be able to read this book. Juiced is a book that shed a whole new light to the steroid era of baseball. I agree with Jose that in the future, steroids will be accepted, and can help you live a better life. I believe that this is good news, as increasing the quality and adding to the longevity of human life is great, and very important to our society. I also believe that Jose is a good person, who despite his reputation, is very kind and honest.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 23, 2008

    Steroids Has Ruined Baseball

    I knew something was wrong with baseball and Jose confirms it with 'Juiced.' Usually, I'm a slow reader, but I couldn't put this book down and finished it in just two days. This is arguably the most important baseball book ever. I hope this book helps to rid steroids from baseball.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 19, 2007

    Jimmy Mazz on JUICED

    When first starting this autobiography by the great Jose Canseco, I was assuming, from the stories and reports I¿ve heard, that it was a low profile telling of the dark hidden secrets in Major League Baseball with him pointing out a few names of steroid users I was wrong. Many a times I had to put the book down to laugh out loud at the claims Jose Canseco was making. Though some may be true, often I ran over to a friend and said, ¿Hey, hey, look at what Jose Canseco said about steroids, isn¿t he hilarious.¿ Overall I found the stories to be highly entertaining, but also mostly believable. Certain parts of the book were a riot with Canseco making claims such as, ¿one day steroid use will be so accepted that everybody will be doing it¿¿(Canseco 2) and, ¿Every baseball player and pro athlete will be using at least some sort of low level steroids.¿(Canseco 2) Then on the other hand, certain parts of the book containing first-hand knowledge of what goes on behind the scenes in the locker room were very intriguing and opened my eyes to what lengths athletes will go to to enhance their abilities, albeit illegally. I could not fathom injecting a needle into a teammate¿s posterior, or having him return the favor just so my homeruns could go an extra forty or fifty feet, but the lure of the big money and big contracts is too tempting for many athletes to resist. Singles hitters don¿t get the big bucks, and even though it¿s wrong to think this way, some of them figured if the others guys are doing it and not getting caught, why shouldn¿t I do it and level the playing field.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 7, 2007

    He got a bad rap!!!

    I am a true fan of the game of baseball. I also was a big fan of Jose in his hayday. After reading his book, I do believe that he did get a bad deal from MLB. I don't agree with the fact that he used performance enhancing products to achieve the stats he compiled in his career. He already had tons of talent. You don't make it to the bigs without it. I respect Jose for coming clean about his career, but I think he should have not mentioned names the way he did. It's truly a good read if you want to know Jose's side of steriods.

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