Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball

Now, steroids are back in the headlines. Record-breaking athletes are falling from grace, and the infamous Mitchell Report confirmed the names of major leaguers who have indeed used steroids while others remain under investigation. The answer is clear: Jose Canseco told the truth. And why wouldn't he? He started it all.

Finally, in Vindicated, Canseco picks up where Juiced left off, revealing details even more shocking than in his controversial first book. He spills never-before-implicated names -- arguably the biggest in the game of baseball -- and explores the mystery of one celebrated player about whom key information was suddenly excised from Juiced at the last minute. He talks candidly about what the Mitchell Report did -- and didn't -- get right, why steroid use became so rampant, and how his life has changed since he tore the lid off Pandora's box.

Lest there be any doubt about theveracity of his claims, Canseco subjected himself to three lie detector tests, one of which was conducted by a former FBI special agent and top polygraph examiner who investigated the Unabomber, Whitewater, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

Transcripts of those taped interviews are also included in this straight-talking examination of the current state of baseball.

This time, he's not just out to clear his name. He's out to clean up the game.

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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:

Not as good as Juiced, 2008-10-09
I'm a big baseball fan and was surprised to see the revelations in Canseco's first book. I was even more surprised to see how many of them came true, and it shows me how messed up baseball was in the 90s. Anyway, in the new book he has way list dirt to dish. It's a lot of rehash, which made it much harder to read than the first.


3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Not Much New Here..., 2008-07-11
I agree with Watty's review. Way too much rehashing of the best from JUICED. Tedious court testimonies and questions from lie detector tests.

The only real interesting new stuff is about the refusal of the networks and media to accuse Roger Clemens of juicing up. Also of interest--Magglio Ordonez' almost certain steroid usage, and A-Rod's interest in 'roids and Canseco's ex-wife. Check this one out at the library.


2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Yup, Canseco..., 2008-05-29
Tells the truth (as far as I can tell)...
Pats himself on the back constantly...
Absolves himself of all personal responsibility for taking steroids...
Absolves himself of all personal responsibility for injecting steroids in other players...
Collects big $ for writing a tell-all book...

Baseball, like all other pro sports, is saturated with cheaters. And nobody (who's cheating or benefits by the cheating) likes a rat. That's why most players, agents, team management, & media claimed Canseco lied in his book "Juiced" (which I never read). "Vindicated" is merely his *I told you so* follow-up.









2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Vindicated...By No Means!, 2008-05-26
Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and the Battle to Save Baseball It's so interesting when you've read not one, but two books filled with the type of self-serving truth Jose Canseco has so freely given us...all after the fact, of course! These two offerings might have taken on an entirely different tone had Canseco not allowed his huge ego interfere in very paragraph. Senor Canseco acts as though he is the second coming of an Omnipotent god rather then a simple baseball player who blew it for himself and many others by "Juicing" it up. He has excused himself everything while blaming everyone else on and off the field for his miseries and stunted career. My only hope is that the "Steroid Era" is marked in every book on baseball stats that is of importance. Their stats should not stand along those that were earned by hard work, sheer talent, practice and guts. None of the players he mentions, including himself, deserve a place in the Hall of Fame. Grow up Jose and lose the ego that got you where you are today. I used to be a fan...now I can only tell you how much you disgust me.


1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

"I told you so," Clemens conspiracy?, not much else, 2008-05-16
The only thing I found really interesting was the amount of censoring out of Roger Clemens' name the big media allegedly did at the time of Canseco's first book. Jose wonders in "Vindicated" if that wasn't deliberate, a GOP plot. Well, given Clemens' testimony before the House this spring, and the partisan division over whether Clemens or McNamee was lying, Jose may be on to something. Or he may not. He gives no reason WHY a conspiracy like this would develop. (Please, no third book about that.)

The only other thing that was in any way news to me was his alleged degree of steroid relationship with Magglio Ordonez.

That said, the before-and-after pics of various actual or alleged juicers, paired with the before-and-after stats.

It's a borderline 2/3 star, leaning toward 3.

Just don't write a third volumne, Jose. We'll know that that one is all about the money.

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