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Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball | 
 enlarge | Author: Jose Canseco
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 7617
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment Hardcover Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 1416591877
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357092
EAN: 9781416591870
ASIN: 1416591877
Publication Date: March 26, 2008
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In 2005, Jose Canseco blew the lid off Major League Baseball's steroid scandal -- and no one believed him. His New York Times bestselling memoir Juiced met a firestorm of criticism and outrage from the media, coaches, clubs, and players, many of whom Canseco had personally introduced to steroids -- with a needle in the ass. Baseball's former golden boy, Rookie of the Year, onetime Most Valuable Player, and owner of two World Series rings was called a liar.Now, steroids are back in the headlines. Record-breaking athletes are falling from grace, and the infamous Mitchell Report confirmed the names of major leaguers who have indeed used steroids while others remain under investigation. The answer is clear: Jose Canseco told the truth. And why wouldn't he? He started it all. Finally, in Vindicated, Canseco picks up where Juiced left off, revealing details even more shocking than in his controversial first book. He spills never-before-implicated names -- arguably the biggest in the game of baseball -- and explores the mystery of one celebrated player about whom key information was suddenly excised from Juiced at the last minute. He talks candidly about what the Mitchell Report did -- and didn't -- get right, why steroid use became so rampant, and how his life has changed since he tore the lid off Pandora's box. Lest there be any doubt about theveracity of his claims, Canseco subjected himself to three lie detector tests, one of which was conducted by a former FBI special agent and top polygraph examiner who investigated the Unabomber, Whitewater, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Transcripts of those taped interviews are also included in this straight-talking examination of the current state of baseball. This time, he's not just out to clear his name. He's out to clean up the game.
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 crack book May 6, 2008
its a crack book you will finish fast and feel kinda different. i picked up this book to see what he had to say about the red sox. he dident say much but it was still a good read. i hate a-rod too jose. he dident do my wife tho
3.5 Stars... Money-grabber? probably so. Truth-teller? probably so (with a grain of salt) May 3, 2008
In 2005 Jose Canseco wrote "Juiced" in which he "outed" the baseball steroid scandal for what it was. Canseco was derided for doing a money-grabbing job, but a funny thing happened along the way: it opened the floodgates, including congressional hearings and a supposedly stricter baseball policy on steroids. Now comes the sequel, in which Canseco muses on what has happened since his first book came out.
in "Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball" (259 pages), Canseco goes on in his "hold no prisoner" way on what he feels is right and wrong with how the baseball steroid scandal has unfolded since his first book. Canseco looks back at the indignation of the baseball world when "Juiced" came out, only to be proved "right" of course. He has choice words for the likes of Rafael Palmero: "Palmeiro knew he was a steroids user, and he knew I knew. [...] Now here we were, only months after the hearings, and Rafi tests positive. Who's lying exactly?" On the Mitchell Report: "Senator Mitchell claimed he had personally all the players connected to the scandal. Maybe he called a lot of players, and maybe, for all I know, he called every single one of them. But he never called me."
On the "outing" of Magglio Ordenez and A-Rod, Canseco sounds pretty vindictive, but then again, he tells it how he sees it and it's difficult to argue with him. only time will tell if Canseco is right on these calls, but with his track record, I wouldn't bet against Canseco. Is Canseco self-serving in this book? of course he is. Is this another "money-grabbing" job? likely. But the facts have been with Canseco and this book doesn't diminish from that fact. (As a total aside, I read in today's newspaper that Canseco's house is being foreclosed on...)
 DISAPPOINTMENT BIG TIME April 28, 2008
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CONSIDERING THE AUTHOR, I SHOULD NOT EXPECTED MUCH BUT EVEN FOR JOSE THIS HAD TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS IN READING. FLAT OUT TERRIBLE.
Roger Wilco Over and out April 27, 2008
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I wouldn't recommend you open Jose Canseco's new book "Vindicated" unless you are ready to let go of your fantasies about baseball -it starts off on Roger Clemens and it is not good----that is really going to fire up the old Rocket. Arod takes a big hit too with direct quotes.
Once again the pictures alone tell the whole story. I beleive Canseco.
It is a good book if you like straight talk with a bit of a righteous edge.
You would be hard pressed to find someone who loves baseball as much as I do.I have had a love affair with the sports since I was a little boy growing up in California. I have it bad.
I also love and admire Roger Clemens. He is one of my all-time sports heros. I think that other than Sandy Koufax he is the greatest pitcher that the game has ever seen. When Roger Clemens signed with Houston where I live, I bought a Season Ticket package the very next day. I went to nearly every game he pitched and I loved watching him---he was amazing to see. I flew to St Louis to see him pitch in the playoffs. He is a credit to the sport and I don't care if he did steroids or not they cannot take away what he accomplished. There is one thing I also know and sadly so does everyone else thanks to Roger Clemens and his unwillingness to be straight about it.
It is my firm belief that Roger Clemens used steroids during his career in Major League Baseball. We all know it; the public knows it, his trainer knows it, his best friend in the world knows it, and as much as it bothers him Roger knows it too. Canseco makes it pateently clear and inescapable.
Fortunately for Roger he is loved and he is white so he will be forgiven. Unfortunately for The Rocket he literally decided to make a federal case out of it. When he did things went bad for him.It seems that what would have blown over pretty quickly after the release of the Mitchell report didn't. My guess it the Mitchell report fervor would have run its course and been forgotten in about two weeks. Roger's ego dragged it out several months. It would have all gone away quickly and quietly had he just walked up and said ya I tried the stuff several times, in the end I didn't like how it made me feel so I stopped, but no. He had to take the world on. He denied the accusations not only publicly but under oath. He literally made a federal case out of it....not just the cliche. Just like Bill Clinton never counted on the Lewinski blue dress, Roger never imagined someone would pull out a bag with his blood, his DNA and the evidence that would hang him. Now people think he is a liar and an idiot.
I still think the world of him. He was a great pitcher, a wonderful asset to the sport and he is a very good man. I live in the community he lives in. Though I don't know him personally I know people who do. Everyone that knows him says he is a first class human being.
Take a deep breath Roger, time will heal it. Look at Clinton. In the end you will feel the love. But I am afraid your little stunt cost you the Hall of Fame on the first ballot and that ego of yours is going to take a beating on that fateful day in 4 years.
Jose -- keep he faith baby
KC
See, he told us so April 18, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Fine, he was right the first time.
A lot of us scoffed when Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big came out. After all, so many of the little details (the baseball anecdotes) were flat-out wrong... who could honestly expect us to believe all of the big details (Jose's allegations about who he helped 'roid up?).
Then came the infamous 2005 Congressional hearings, and Rafael Palmeiro's tainted B12 shot, and the publication of Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports. Now, come to find out, Jose really was telling us the truth!
That's where "Vindicated" comes in. This is a slim volume, with big print and wide margins, in which Jose repeatedly tells us how truthful he is. I'm going to allow him his victory lap. If I can help him pay down his debts and keep him stocked in power bars and hair gel, and buy his daughter horseback-riding lessons, fine, I'm in. That's my punishment for lightly mocking "Juiced".
I won't say this is an artful book. "Juiced" had its problems but it had a competent ghostwriter, the same guy who gave us One Day at Fenway: A Day in the Life of Baseball in America and What a Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals. "Vindicated", on the other hand, is written by the same titan of the typewriter (master wizard of MS Word?) who gave us If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer. Many details are repeated over and over again: in barely 200 pages I caught four repetitions of the story of Jose's pledge to his dying mother. How can so small a book have so much duplication?
The stuff about the lie detector tests is kind of over-the-top. To make a long story short, such testing is largely inadmissible in a court of law. Also Jose describes verbatim pre- and post-test banter with the test administrators which leads us to wonder if those two ex-law enforcement guys weren't just playing along with an elaborate gag.
Also, while Jose uses the scope of the entire book to waver back and forth between saying that Roger Clemens 'roided up, and then going so far as to sign an affidavit for the Rocket's lawyers saying that he knows nothing... he tells us that he knows for a fact that Clemens wasn't at the infamous 1998 Canseco family pool party, and yet wire reports say that a picture actually exists of Clemens at that party. The jury's still out on that one, for me at least.
Still, allow the man his indulgence. Also, a late chapter about why Jose loves baseball is actually kind of touching. Considering how little affection Jose showed for baseball in his earlier volume, this chapter actually gives him the slightest hint of something he's never shown us before: humility.
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