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 enlarge | Author: Jose Canseco
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 11199
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Simon Spotlight Entertainment Hardcover Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
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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 1 Question for Canseco?? April 9, 2008
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
To Jose Canseco:
Have you taken steroids, growth hormone or any other performance enhancing drug(s) within the past year??? And would you take a polygraph test???
 Read the A-Rod Chapter - Forget the Rest April 8, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I just finished Jose's latest. While I thought his first book was a good read and revealed the dark side of baseball, I found very little in this book that was either new or exciting.
My suggestion is to read the chapter about A-Rod and Jose's wife, and the Clemens' chapter, then give the book to a friend. The rest of the material is boring, repetitive and a re-hash of previous information.
Sorry Jose.
 The Coda On The "Steroid Era" April 7, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Jose Canseco ushered in the "Steroid Era" in professional baseball through his actions in numerous clubhouses, brought it to a crashing halt with his first book, Juiced, and has now buried the sordid past with Vindicated.
Canseco again swings for the fences with additional autobiographical material, an exploration into the Mitchell Report, along with critical pronouncements on various aspects of the media, Major League Baseball and additional players not named in the first book, with an explanation on why the omissions took place.
The most explosive material is initially introduced through a series of lie detector tests Canseco took to prove the validity of his statements.
It will continue to be hotly debated on why Canseco came clean on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in MLB. But it cannot be minimized the impact he has had on forcing MLB - from the commissioner's office to the player's association - to confront the issue in public forums.
A whistle-blower who continues to be vilified in some quarters, Canseco takes the heat like a clean-up hitter and then smacks one out of the ballpark.
 A snake...maybe. A liar...nope! April 4, 2008
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
Jose Canseco has said himself that he wrote this book and Juiced to exact revenge against MLB for blackballing him. His reasoning was that because he was the guy to bring steroids into the game, players improved by leaps and bounds and that caused the salary structure to explode over the years. Is that true? I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it was. In my OPINION, I think Jose is upset that his own body betrayed him...fell apart...and he was forced from the game. At one time, Jose was the talk of the town. HE was going to hit 62 home runs in a season. HE was going to hit 756 for his career. And now...with a career that included more trips on the DL than to the All Star game, and finishing with 462 home runs,he was removed from the Hall of Fame ballot after the 2007 voting and his career has been reduced to a footnote. He's watched from the sidelines as Mark McGwire & Sammy Sosa broke records and were cheered and it ate at him (something he alluded to in Juiced).So now he decided to do something about this. Again, my OPINION is that he felt "if I can't have the addoration of the fans anymore,neither can they"
I don't think he wrote this book as a cash grab. He made $50 million dollars in his career. I also don't think he wrote this to "save" the game. If Jose was able to play out his career as he wanted, was able to be elected to the Hall of Fame and was able to feel vindicated by his playing, he wouldn't have written these books.
But I will say this. Shortly after Juiced came out, his former teammate Dave Stewart had said "You can call Jose a lot of things...but you can never call him a liar" and I think he proved that. I also believe that a lot of what he wrote in this book will prove true in the long run.
But as far as his motives go...they're suspect at best. This book is for him and nobody else. Not MLB, not the players union or the players themselves. But for Jose Canseco and his bruised ego.
Jose Canseco is a liar April 3, 2008
2 out of 19 found this review helpful
This book is chock full of lies. Jose Conseco is simply broke. This is a guy that mismanages his money that he has to lie and turn in people that he once called friends. Don't bother supporting this loser of a former player. He is only writing books because
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