Juiced

<p><strong>The #1 <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller</strong></p><p><strong>In <em>Juiced</em> Jose Canseco</strong> <strong>one of the most electrifying and controversial athletes ever to step onto the baseball diamond shares the untold story of his rise to fame and fall from grace including a never-before-seen look behind the curtains into the history dangers truths and lies about baseball's dark secret: steroids.</strong></p><p>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 40+ home runs and swipe 40+ bases in the same season. He won the Rookie of the Year the MVP award and a World Series ring.</p><p>He was a dynamo on the field and a magnet for trouble off it. From his frequent run-ins with police to his wild and often highly public love life Canseco broke the mold of the big-time athlete and ushered in a new era of super-athletes with outrageous salaries and rock-star lifestyles. But behind the gaudy stats and the glitz and glamour of his public life Canseco cultivated a dark secret one that would alter the game of baseball and the way we view our heroes forever. Canseco made himself a guinea pig of the blossoming performance-enhancing drugs movement that was only just beginning to take hold in Major League Baseball. 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 the league.</p><p>Today this issue has crept out of the closet and burst into the headlines as players balloon to herculean proportions and hundred-year-old records are not just broken but demolished. In this shocking autobiography Canseco sheds light on a life of dizzying highs and debilitating lows--and also provides the answers to questions about steroids and the Major Leagues that millions of sports fans are only now beginning to ask.</p>