As he builds a new life in Southern California -- thousands of miles from the Westchester home where he grew up -- Jose Canseco can laugh and say, ``I told you so.''
With baseball's steroid controversy raging, the timing couldn't be better for the release of Canseco's book, Juiced, which is due out in mid- to late-January, and will be preceded by an interview with Mike Wallace on CBS' 60 Minutes. A secret preliminary copy, which agent Doug Ames said is not the final version, accuses several big-name baseball players of using steroids.
Canseco, 40, said he's not surprised Barry Bonds used steroids and estimates 75 percent of players take them. ''Are they testing the guys they know are using steroids? No,'' Canseco relayed to me through Ames.
Canseco's life after baseball remains bizarre. Having sold his 1988 AL MVP plaque for $30,000 and his Rookie of the Year ring for $5,100 on eBay, the Coral Park High grad is parting with everything that meant anything in his career.
''Baseball is over,'' Canseco said through Ames. ''I don't care. I'm doing my new life, which is acting.'' Ames insists Canseco ''doesn't need the money'' but is devoid of sentiment. ''We sold the MVP plaque because it was sitting around and the dogs were eating it,'' Ames said.
He has sold at least 50 pieces, including All-Star Game rings and a jersey that Roger Clemens gave him. Soon, Canseco will sell his possessions from his 40/40 season in 1988: the 40th home run ball, the 40th stolen base, a bat, his shoes and a jersey. Asking price: $150,000.
And there's no shortage of suitors. A fan in California, perhaps in need of medication, paid him $90 for a 15-year-old Canseco blowup doll. Canseco sold his Mercedes for $65,000 because ''he has five cars and only a three-car garage,'' Ames said.
Now living in Encino, Calif., Canseco remains on probation for a bar brawl for another three months. But his visit with his probation officer earlier this month was the last time he will be required to return to South Florida. ''He can't stand Miami,'' Ames added. ``He'll never go back.''
Canseco, who has a street near Coral Park High named in his honor, takes acting lessons daily and will star in an action film to be shot next month in Charleston, S.C. The public can bid $2,500 to spend a day with him on the set.
A bit surprised that they are so cheap. The Yankee ring looks sweet, and I'm not a Yankee fan.
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kentx12 wrote:I cant believe he is selling all this stuff unless they are telling a slight lie and he is in need of money.
Thats why I posted this .. I can't beleive that he would just sell it all for 150,000 ... What a joke. What a loser. Fans should boycott his book, since he has decided to basically boycott baseball in this fashion. Why reward idiocy.
wrveres wrote:What a joke. What a loser. Fans should boycott his book, since he has decided to basically boycott baseball in this fashion. Why reward idiocy?
kentx12 wrote:I cant believe he is selling all this stuff unless they are telling a slight lie and he is in need of money.
Thats why I posted this .. I can't beleive that he would just sell it all for 150,000 ... What a joke. What a loser. Fans should boycott his book, since he has decided to basically boycott baseball in this fashion. Why reward idiocy.
If I was a baseball player I'd sell all that junk too. I'd probably give it to a charity though and let them sell the stuff and keep the money.
kentx12 wrote:I cant believe he is selling all this stuff unless they are telling a slight lie and he is in need of money.
Thats why I posted this .. I can't beleive that he would just sell it all for 150,000 ... What a joke. What a loser. Fans should boycott his book, since he has decided to basically boycott baseball in this fashion. Why reward idiocy.
If I was a baseball player I'd sell all that junk too. I'd probably give it to a charity though and let them sell the stuff and keep the money.
why ?
I understand the charity angle, but why get rid of it?
kentx12 wrote:I cant believe he is selling all this stuff unless they are telling a slight lie and he is in need of money.
Thats why I posted this .. I can't beleive that he would just sell it all for 150,000 ... What a joke. What a loser. Fans should boycott his book, since he has decided to basically boycott baseball in this fashion. Why reward idiocy.
If I was a baseball player I'd sell all that junk too. I'd probably give it to a charity though and let them sell the stuff and keep the money.
why ? I understand the charity angle, but why get rid of it?
It wouldn't be worth anything to me so I might as well give it away so someone else could benefit.
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