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Jose Canseco
9/17/2011
Jose Canseco is one of the greatest Legends alive in Baseball History today, and holds 3 Guinness World book Records in Magor League Baseball. Nicknamed 40/40 also has 6 World Records in Pro Baseball and is one of the games Greatest Baseball Legends of ALL time. And still today with a passion for the game, he is in awesome shape at 255 lbs. and is possibly the Greatest Power Hitting Champion in the World.
-Keith Middlebrook
Mark McGuire & Jose Canseco, Friends & Legends – Keith Middlebrook
Mark McGuire & Jose Canseco the “BashBrothers”, the “Dynamic Duo “, the greatest power hitting team in baseball history, they together not only epitomized the word “team” but before them a “power hitting duo” didn’t even exist.- Keith Middlebrook
Jose Canseco also single handedly took the “sloppy unfit” look out of baseball and took the “fitness” in baseball to a new awareness level the world over and still today is in awesome shape and in better condition than most half his age.
Outfielder / Designated hitter
Born: July 2, 1964 (age 47)
Havana, Cuba
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 2, 1985 for the Oakland Athletics
Last MLB appearance
October 6, 2001 for the Chicago White Sox
Career statistics
Batting average .266
Home runs 462
Runs batted in 1,407
Teams
Oakland Athletics (1985–1992)
Texas Rangers (1992–1994)
Boston Red Sox (1995–1996)
Oakland Athletics (1997)
Toronto Blue Jays (1998)
Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1999–2000)
New York Yankees (2000)
Chicago White Sox (2001)
Career highlights and awards
6× All-Star (1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1999)
2× World Series champion (1989, 2000)
4× Silver Slugger Award winner (1988, 1990, 1991, 1998)
1988 AL MVP
1986 AL Rookie of the Year
1994 AL Comeback Player of the Year
Baseball career (1982–present)
Minor league baseball (1982–1985)
The Oakland Athletics drafted Canseco in the 15th round of the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft. He played minor league baseball with the Madison Muskies, Idaho Falls A’s, and the Modesto A’s. Canseco started the 1985 season with the Class-AA Huntsville Stars and became known as “Parkway Jose”[1], for his long home runs (25 in half a season), that went close to the Memorial Parkway behind Joe Davis Stadium.
Major League Baseball (1985–2001)
Oakland Athletics (1985–92)
In 1985, Canseco won the Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year Award, and was a late season call-up for the Oakland Athletics, playing in 29 games in the major leagues in 1985. He established himself in1986, his first full season, being named the American League‘s Rookie of the Year, with 33 home runs and 117 runs batted in. In 1987, Mark McGwire joined Canseco on the Athletics; McGwire hit 49 home runs that year and was also named the American League Rookie of the Year. Together, he and Canseco formed a fearsome offensive tandem, known as the “Bash Brothers”.
In 1988, Canseco became the first player in major league history to hit at least 40 home runs and steal at least 40 bases in the same year, by hitting 42 home runs and stealing 40 bases. In April of that year, Canseco predicted the feat, being unaware at the time that it had never been done before[2]. After reaching 40-40, the street in front of his former high school was named after him and later rescinded in 2008 after he admitted to previously using drugs throughout his career.[3][4] That same year, he helped the Athletics to the World Series but they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games. Canseco was unanimously named the American League’s Most Valuable Player in 1988, with a .307 batting average, 120 runs scored, 124 RBI, 42 home runs, and 40 stolen bases.
In 1989, Canseco missed all but 65 of the regular season games with a broken wrist, but he still managed to hit 17 home runs as the Athletics won their first World Series since 1974, beating the San Francisco Giants in four games. The 1989 Series was interrupted before Game 3 by a major earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Canseco came back to form in 1990, hitting 37 home runs despite being hampered in the latter part of the season by what would become a recurring back problem. The A’s returned to the World Series once again, but were swept by the Cincinnati Reds in four games. Canseco continued to be productive, hitting 44 home runs in 1991.
Texas Rangers (1992–94)
In the 1994 strike shortened season, Canseco again returned to his former status of power hitter with 31 home runs and 90 RBI in 111 games. Canseco also stole 15 bases and posted a .282 batting average. He was named comeback player of the year in 1994, and finished in eleventh place in the American League Most Valuable Player voting.
Final MLB seasons (1995–2001)
After playing with the Rangers from 1992 to 1994, Canseco moved on to play with the Boston Red Sox from 1995 to 1996. Following a return with the A’s in 1997, Canseco did have a productive season again with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998, when he hit 46 home runs and stole 29 bases, the most he had stolen since the 40 he stole in 1988. He won the AL Silver Slugger award, but his comeback was missed by most fans because of the home run race in the National League between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
Canseco went to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1999, where he hit 34 home runs in 114 games and was named to the AL All-Star team, until he injured his back and was lost for the season. He was claimed off waivers by the New York Yankees in August 2000, which caught many, including Yankees manager Joe Torre off guard, as the Yankees had four other players who fulfilled a similar role to Canseco.[11] Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman made the claim to prevent the Blue Jays, who were in a close race with the Yankees, from acquiring Canseco.[12] He made one appearance in the 2000 World Series against the New York Mets and earned his second World Series ring when they defeated the Mets in five games.
Canseco played with the Chicago White Sox in 2001,
His 462 career home runs rank him 32nd on the MLB all-time list. Canseco was at one time the all-time leader in home runs among Latino players; he was later surpassed by Manny Ramirez, Carlos Delgado, Rafael Palmeiro, Alex Rodriguez, and Sammy Sosa. Canseco has been distinguished four times with the Silver Slugger award: three times as an AL outfielder in 1988, 1990, and 1991, and once as a Designated Hitter in 1998.
Independent League career (2006-present)
On June 29, 2006, the independent Golden Baseball League announced Canseco had agreed to a one-year contract to play with the San Diego Surf Dawgs. The League said Canseco had agreed to be subjected to its drug-testing policy “that immediately expels any players found using steroids or illegal drugs.”
On July 31, 2006, Canseco won the Golden Baseball League’s Home Run Derby.
On August 14, 2010, Canseco signed a short team deal with the Laredo Broncos of the United Baseball League. He served as bench coach and designated hitter.
On April 11, 2011, Canseco signed a deal as a player/manager for the Yuma Scorpions of the North American League.
On April 20, 2012, the Worcester Tornadoes, of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, announced that they had signed Canseco to a one-season contract
Outside of baseball
While still a player, he guest starred on The Simpsons and Nash Bridges. Since his retirement, Canseco has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman, 60 Minutes, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, “Boomer and Carton“, Howard Stern, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CMI: TheChris Myers Interview, and Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List. In 2003, he was featured in the reality-TV special Stripper’s Ball: Jenna Jameson with Dennis Rodman and Magic Johnson.[21] He was a cast member in Season 5 of The Surreal Life with Janice Dickinson, Pepa of Salt-N-Pepa, Bronson Pinchot, Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, Caprice Bourret, and Carey Hart.[22]
In 2007, he received 6 Hall of Fame votes. This accounted for 1.1% of the ballots, failing to reach the 5% threshold necessary to stay on the ballot for another year. However, he can be elected to the Hall of Fame by the Committee of Baseball Veterans.
In May 2008, Philadelphia sportscaster and former NFL football player Vai Sikahema accepted a challenge from Canseco to fight him for $30,000. Canseco earned black belts in Kung Fu and Taekwondo, while Sikahema fought in the Golden Gloves tournament won by Sugar Ray Leonard. The fight took place on July 12 in Atlantic City at the Bernie Robbins stadium.[23] The 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Sikahema knocked out the 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) Canseco in the first round.
On January 24, 2009, Canseco fought radio personality and former child actor Danny Bonaduce in Aston Township, Pennsylvania; the three-round match ended in a majority draw.[24][25]
Canseco holds black belts in karate and taekwondo, and also practices Muay Thai.[26] He made his mixed martial arts debut at Dream 9 on May 26, 2009, where he lost in the first round against 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) kickboxer and occasional mixed martial artist Choi Hong-man as part of Dream’s Super Hulk Tournament.[27][28]
On November 6, 2009, Canseco defeated Todd Poulton in a Celebrity Boxing Federation bout in Springfield, MA.[29] As of December 2010, he has launched a Twitter campaign in hopes of getting invited to Spring Training by Mets GM Sandy Alderson.
Beginning March 6, 2011, Canseco was a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice. He quit the show on the April 3, 2011, citing his father’s ailing health. Canseco later announced on Twitter that his father died shortly after he left the show. Canseco did earn $25,000 for his charity, the Baseball Assistance Team.
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