Wednesday, November 6, 2024

#2 - Jose Canseco

My Two Cents- One of the greats from the steroid era, it's hard to imagine having a baseball card set from the late 1990s without a card of Jose Canseco. Look at those unnaturally large forearms. This was near the end of Jose's career when he started bouncing around from team to team every year. After his second stint with the A's, he played for the Blue Jays, Devil Rays, Yankees, and White Sox. He also signed contracts with the Angels and Expos, but never played a game for either team. Jose could still hit at this point in his career. In 1999, he hit 34 home runs for the Rays in just 113 games. I imagine this is a photo of him hitting a home run, or maybe a really long, loud foul ball.  
The Card Back- Love the portrait photograph in the background of Jose standing with his bat. The "DYK" has an interesting factoid about Jose owning the record for most consecutive walks in a row.  I tried to do a little research about this record and could not find much about it anywhere on the internet other than David Dahl walked in 17 straight games in 2016. Maybe this record has fallen into some sort of black hole, because Jose is more or less banned from MLB for steroids.  

Video Highlight of Jose Canseco- You know what it is.......




4 comments:

  1. A. I like that photo on the back as well. He looks pissed.

    B. If there was ever a guy to walk eight times and break Canseco's record... it would be Bonds. Intentional or not... that guy walked a lot.

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    1. That's what I thought, especially in some of those early 2000s seasons. There is just absolutely nothing online about that record though. Strange.

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  2. I wish some of the steroid guys' records were ignored like Jose's seem to be.

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    1. That would certainly end of lot of long running arguments.

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