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          The flamboyant, controversial base-stealer for the Oakland A's offers a no-holds-barred account of his notorious career.

          A biography of Jose Canseco, the major league baseball player who made a comeback despite serious injury, being traded by the Oakland Athletics, divorce..

           

          Jose Canseco Biography

          Jose Canseco Capas Jr.

          (born July 2, 1964) was a Major League Baseball player. He was born in Havana, Cuba, and is the twin brother of another major league baseball player, Ossie Canseco. His family left Cuba when he and his brother were infants, and he grew up in Miami.

          Canseco did not attend college on a baseball scholarship.

          He was signed by the Oakland Athletics and began playing in 1986, causing a splash immediately. He was named American League Rookie of the Year after connecting 33 home-runs that year.

          Before a game on July 2, , Canseco was the only player ever to hit a ball over the center field fence, which was feet from home plate.

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        2. A biography of Jose Canseco, the major league baseball player who made a comeback despite serious injury, being traded by the Oakland Athletics, divorce.
        3. If I don't write every day my days lose color and meaning, and I begin to feel like a prisoner in a pointless, exhausting life, so I try to.
        4. He was a dynamo on the field, and a magnet for trouble off it.

          5. In 1987, he was joined in the team by Mark McGwire, who hit 49 home-runs that year, and they became known as the Bash Brothers. In 1988, Canseco became the first player in Major League Baseball's history to hit at least 42 home-runs and steal 40 bases in the same year.

          That year, he helped the Athletics to the World Series but they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games. Canseco was named the American League's Most Valuable