Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball by Jose Canseco When his first book — JUICED: Wild Times, Rampant ’Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big — was published in 2005, Jose Canseco received the same enmity as Jim Bouton a generation before. Bouton, a pitcher for the New York Yankees, […]
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After a lull, Jose Canseco is back in the news after he defaulted on his mortgage and his home was foreclosed. Poor Jose, but look on the bright side. This can be fodder for his next book. a paranoic, conspiracy theory about how the baseball establishment ruined him for daring to speak “the truth.” Anyway, […]
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Okay, it’s been at least five minutes since we’ve heard anything about Jose Hemingway. For those of you who need a fix, here are a few crumbs: The Week is an interesting publication, kind of like a condense Reader’s Digest offering snippets from other publications on the major events of the last seven days. As […]
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They’re coming in fast and furious now. Selena Roberts on SI.com writes that Canseco’s allegations about other players who use warrant further scrutiny. “It’s up to baseball’s new detective squad to unearth the truth about A-Rod, about Ordonez, about their owners, before Canseco makes it a trilogy.” Chris Olds of the Orlando Sentinel calls Vindicated […]
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How come we’re not hearing much about Vindicated these days? Just a week ago it was such hot news. Now, nothing. I imagine I’ll be reviewing it at some point, but so far I haven’t seen it among any of the baseball book reviews published so far.
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When did this once-estimable program turned into a supermarket tabloid? In the words of several sports pundits, this whole thing makes me want to take a shower.
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I felt it was my duty to report that Canseco will be the subject of a Nightline segment this evening. As a bonus, the page links to an excerpt from Vindicated. Man, that show has gone downhill since Ted Koppel left.
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Yeah, I know what I said, but here are a few fallout items of note on the Canseco project. The most “impressive” of the bunch comes from the mind of Pat Jordan on Deadspin.com, who started the whole ballplayer-as-writer business with his 1960 books A Short Season and The Pennant Race. He comes to the […]
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I’m not going to spend a lot of time rehashing all the news that comes out about Vindicated. They’re pretty much rehashings of the same story, Rodriguez this, Ordonez that, blah, blah, blah. Here’s a piece from today’s New York Times; it will probably be the last from the Bookshelf until the actual reviews start […]
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According to this item in today’s on-line Publisher’s Weekly: As Jose Canseco’s Vindicated arrives in stores, the controversial baseball player’s relationship with former Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens is under new scrutiny, as federal authorities investigate whether Clemens committed perjury when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs while testifying under oath to a Congressional committee. Canseco’s second […]
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According to this piece in the New York Daily News, Jose Canseco’s book tours in California “may take an abrupt detour: The former slugger and admitted steroid user is expected to have a face-to-face meeting with IRS special agent Jeff Novitzky, the government’s lead steroid investigator who is now focusing his efforts on whether pitcher […]
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From The Deadbolt News, a report on the “opening night” of Jose Canseco’s author tour, which begins Monday, March 31 on Letterman. According to the official CBS press release, “Canseco will appear on the LATE SHOW to promote his new book, Vindicated, which will be published on the following day, Tuesday, April 1. Vindicated is […]
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Newsweek published this profile on the man who would be Jose Canseco, at least on paper. According to the article Fenjves met Canseco on Jan. 2—Fenjves’s work on Jessica Canseco’s “Juicy” hadn’t bothered her ex-husband—and had just four weeks to put together the 60,000-word manuscript to meet a March 31 publication date. “He knew what […]
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José Canseco, the former major league slugger and admitted steroid user who exposed other players in his 2005 best-selling book “Juiced,” offered to keep a Detroit Tigers outfielder “clear” in his next book if the player invested money in a film project Canseco was promoting, according to a person in baseball with knowledge of the […]
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Publisher Out: Berkley/Penguin In: ? Collaborator Out: Don Yaeger, a former Sports Illustrated associate editor, who didn’t think there was much left that was newsworthy In: Pablo F. Fenjves, a former National Enquirer writer who was the ghost writer for O.J. Simpson’s latest, which brought down a publishing imprint (Regan Books)
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Penguin Books, which usually lends itself to more prestigious fare, will publish Jose Canseco’s sequel, Vindicated, according to this brief from yesterday’s Publisher’s Weekly. Y’all can get some sleep now.
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