Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got BIG [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Canseco, Jose

Published by Regan Books , an imprint of Harper Collins, New York, 2005

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As new condition white boards/white spine/maroon spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Disclaimer; Author Dedication; Introduction: A Look to the Future; Prologue: The First Time Hurts Most; Epilogue: Forever Young; Acknowledgments; and Index of Names. Illustrated with a section of color photographic plates. "The challenge is not to find a top layer who has used steroids. The challenge is to find a top player who hasn't. No one who reads this book from cover to cover will have any doubt that steroids are a huge part of baseball, and always will be, no matter what crazy toothless testing schemes the powers that be might dream up." - Jose Canseco, from the rear outer jacket. "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 super athletes 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. 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 only broken, but also demolished. In this shocking memoir, Canseco sheds light on a life of dizzying highs and debilitating lows, provides the answers to questions about steroids that millions of fans are only now beginning to ask - and suggests that, far from being a passing trend, the steroid revolution is only a taste of things to come. Who's juiced? According to Canseco's authoritative account, more than you think. And baseball will never be the same." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 005358

Bibliographic Details

Title: Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash ...

Publisher: Regan Books , an imprint of Harper Collins, New York

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition