Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

Canseco started the 1985 season with the Class-AA Huntsville Stars and became known as "Parkway Jose" for his long home runs (25 in half a season) that went close to the Memorial Parkway behind Joe Davis Stadium. In May 2008 Canseco revealed that he had lost his house in Encino California to foreclosure saying his two divorces had cost him $7 to $8 million each. The 5 ft 9 in (1.

José Canseco Capas Jr. Canseco is the identical twin brother of former major league player Ozzie Canseco. Canseco has admitted using performance enhancing drugs during his playing career and in 2005 wrote a tell-all book Juiced: Wild Times Rampant 'Roids Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big in which he claimed that the vast majority of MLB players use steroids.