This is not an endorsement. It is, how ever, more of the same negative media propaganda design to fuel current
steroid myths. Never the less, I do believe that it will be interesting to learn how and why a Major League Profesional decided to experiment on himself when he had access to health profesionals who could theoretically point him in the right direction or perscribe to him specific enhancing technology.
If anyone gets hold of a bootleg copy of this one plese drop me a line.
Juiced
Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big
by Jose Canseco
Book Description
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 more than forty home runs and swipe more than forty bases in the same season. He won Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and a World Series ring.
Canseco shattered the mold of the out-of-shape baseball player and ushered in a new era of superathletes who looked like bodybuilders, made outrageous salaries, and enjoyed rock-star lifestyles. And the ticket for this ride?
steroids. Behind the gaudy stats and the glamour of his public life, Canseco cultivated a secret just about everyone in MLB knew about, one that would alter the game of baseball and the way we view our heroes forever. Canseco made himself a guinea pig of the performance-enhancing drugs that were only just beginning to infiltrate the American underground. 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 Major League Baseball. Sluggers scooping up pitches at their ankles and blasting them out of the park, pitchers cranking fastballs inning after inning -- Canseco showed the players how to customize their doses to sculpt the bodies they wanted, and baseball as we know it was the result.
Imprint: ReganBooks; ISBN: 0060746408; On Sale: 02/21/2005;
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