“"Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball" by Jose Canseco is the sequel to the book "Juiced", also written by Canseco. It is about the steroid era in major league baseball and focuses on players in the leagues today that have allegedly used performance enhancing drugs to gain muscle mass, increase stamina, or just make them feel invincible to normal human concerns. This book essentially is just an attempt for Canseco to make some extra money and slander the names of the stars today. The theme of the book is for his word to go against all others. He uses the names of current players and ties them to steroid use; most notably Alex Rodriguez: the third baseman for the New York Yankees and the highest paid athlete in sports history. Canseco, a former player was once seen as a living baseball god, all up until after his career. It was shown that he was a heavy user of steroids and that essentially made him such a great hitter. The information in this book is hard to believe after all that was said in the Mitchell Report, conducted by former senator, George Mitchell, which was started by Major League Baseball. I didn't like this book too much because it was repeating most of the information which I had known before reading this book.”
NOAH S wrote this review Wednesday, January 14 2009.
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