I was watching Game One of the 1988 World Series on mlb.com's greatest games section. It was a pretty good game and I heard something from Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola (sp) about columnist Thomas Boswell's comments about Canseco and steroids. They lightly touched on it but I didn't know what it was all about. So I did a little searching and here's some info I found in a newsday column about that situation.
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It's interesting to see that Canseco was already being widely thought of as a roidhead as far back as 1988.
I thought i'd share all this in light of the current situation. It seems that the steroid issue was commonly known back then and there was some media scrutiny as well, tho not to the extent that it is today.
link: http://http://www.newsday.com/sports...ball-headlines
Then the rethinking process moves on to encompass entire nights of life. Such as Saturday, Oct. 15, 1988.
Having just become the alleged first player to allegedly hit 40 home runs and allegedly steal 40 bases in a season, Oakland's Canseco turned up for the World Series with some curious backlighting.
Three weeks earlier, columnist Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post, speaking to Charlie Rose on CBS, referred to Canseco as "the most conspicuous example of a player who has made himself great with steroids."
Boswell said the term "Jose Canseco milk shake" had grown synonymous with steroids in American League player parlance, and that Oakland manager Tony La Russa had told Boswell that Canseco had made early-career mistakes, alluding to steroids.
Having just become the alleged first player to allegedly hit 40 home runs and allegedly steal 40 bases in a season, Oakland's Canseco turned up for the World Series with some curious backlighting.
Three weeks earlier, columnist Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post, speaking to Charlie Rose on CBS, referred to Canseco as "the most conspicuous example of a player who has made himself great with steroids."
Boswell said the term "Jose Canseco milk shake" had grown synonymous with steroids in American League player parlance, and that Oakland manager Tony La Russa had told Boswell that Canseco had made early-career mistakes, alluding to steroids.
Canseco himself had assigned Boswell "the highest level of irresponsibility." He had lamented in Newsday, "Why does everybody who is great or successful as an athlete have to be taking steroids?" He had released a typewritten statement and said, "When someone says something as ridiculous as Mr. Boswell said, you can't let it bother you."
After all, you might have a teammate to go shoot up.
As the World Series got going, pregame batting-cage prattle included a steadfast defense of Canseco's weightlifting enthusiasm told to the Chicago Tribune and others by a clearly unaware Oakland batting coach who happened to be Bob Watson, later the dean of baseball discipline.
Hints abounded that Canseco might seek legal action,...
After all, you might have a teammate to go shoot up.
As the World Series got going, pregame batting-cage prattle included a steadfast defense of Canseco's weightlifting enthusiasm told to the Chicago Tribune and others by a clearly unaware Oakland batting coach who happened to be Bob Watson, later the dean of baseball discipline.
Hints abounded that Canseco might seek legal action,...
I thought i'd share all this in light of the current situation. It seems that the steroid issue was commonly known back then and there was some media scrutiny as well, tho not to the extent that it is today.
link: http://http://www.newsday.com/sports...ball-headlines
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