Fingerless Canseco Gives Comic Relief Amid Scandals: Sports Line
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Just when sports is stuck in a morass of soccer scandals and deflated footballs, along comes the latter-day clown prince of baseball to provide comic relief.
Jose Canseco, who hit 462 home runs and wrote a book about how steroids helped him do it, will attempt to play all nine positions on the field during a two-day stint with the Sonoma Stompers this weekend. The Stompers will celebrate by passing out foam hands to fans minus half the middle finger -- the former slugger accidentally shot it off last year.