Canseco jose biography of alberto

José Canseco: —: Baseball player.

As the American League's Rookie of the Year in and the first player to hit forty home runs and steal forty bases in a single season, José Canseco was one of the outstanding baseball players of his day.

Canseco jose biography of alberto

Named the Most Valuable Player in the American League in during his first stint with the Oakland Athletics (A's), Canseco indeed seemed well on his way to a long illustrious major league career. Yet a series of injuries and legal problems plagued the slugger during the s.

He played for six different teams during the decade—never for more than two-and-a-half seasons on any one team—before briefly joining the New York Yankees in Closing out his career with the Chicago White Sox in , Canseco alleged that he had been blackballed from baseball because of his controversial persona on and off the field.

However, his retirement as a professional athlete proved just as controversia