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http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1985653
After months of talking about naming names in a tell-all book, retired slugger Jose Canseco is about to do just that.....
....Canseco writes that he personally injected Mark McGwire with steroids and that he saw McGwire and Jason Giambi inject each other, according to the paper....
....Canseco claims he introduced the performance enhancers to Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez, and Juan Gonzalez when he joined the Rangers in 1992.
Rodriguez and Gonzalez said that they had not seen book and declined comment. Attempts to contact Palmeiro's agent have been unsuccessful.
"Neither our current owner, general manager and manager were with the Rangers then," Texas spokesman Gregg Elkin said. "The Rangers continue to support baseball's initiative to get steroids out of the game."
Canseco's steroid use apparently wasn't hidden from La Russa during their time in Oakland. According to La Russa, Canseco would openly discuss steroids and ignore advice to stop doping.
"He'd say, 'Come on, man, what are you talking about? I got the world by the tail,' " La Russa told the Times. "Sometimes you suspected, and then guys would deny it. Jose would make a joke of it."
In his tell-all book, Canseco also writes that President Bush "had to have been aware" of rampant steroid use on the Texas Rangers when he owned the club in the early 1990s, the Daily News reported.
The White House had no comment on Canseco's specific allegation, but did say the President called on leagues and players unions to eradicate steroid use in his 2004 State of the Union address.....
After months of talking about naming names in a tell-all book, retired slugger Jose Canseco is about to do just that.....
....Canseco writes that he personally injected Mark McGwire with steroids and that he saw McGwire and Jason Giambi inject each other, according to the paper....
....Canseco claims he introduced the performance enhancers to Rafael Palmeiro, Ivan Rodriguez, and Juan Gonzalez when he joined the Rangers in 1992.
Rodriguez and Gonzalez said that they had not seen book and declined comment. Attempts to contact Palmeiro's agent have been unsuccessful.
"Neither our current owner, general manager and manager were with the Rangers then," Texas spokesman Gregg Elkin said. "The Rangers continue to support baseball's initiative to get steroids out of the game."
Canseco's steroid use apparently wasn't hidden from La Russa during their time in Oakland. According to La Russa, Canseco would openly discuss steroids and ignore advice to stop doping.
"He'd say, 'Come on, man, what are you talking about? I got the world by the tail,' " La Russa told the Times. "Sometimes you suspected, and then guys would deny it. Jose would make a joke of it."
In his tell-all book, Canseco also writes that President Bush "had to have been aware" of rampant steroid use on the Texas Rangers when he owned the club in the early 1990s, the Daily News reported.
The White House had no comment on Canseco's specific allegation, but did say the President called on leagues and players unions to eradicate steroid use in his 2004 State of the Union address.....
