Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big

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. 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.

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.