Oh-Eee-Oh: Canseco Says He Injected Magglio Ordoñez With Steroids

By Margaret Lyons in News on Mar 26, 2008 6:40PM

Jose Canseco's second book hits shelves next week, but copies are getting around already. In this tell-some sequel, Canseco says he hooked Alex Rodriguez up with a 'roid-distributing trainer (and that Rodriguez hit on his wife), that he thinks Roger Clemens may be on steroids, and that he personally injected then-White Sox Magglio Ordoñez with performance enhancing drugs.

I met Maggs (Magglio Ordonez) in 2001, when I was with the White Sox. ... When it was all said and done, when Maggs had the information he needed, he told me he was in. A few days later, we went into the back room in the clubhouse, and I jabbed a needle into his butt. ‘Ow,' he said. ‘That hurt.' ‘You'll get used to it,' I said.

In January, the NYT said that Canseco had asked Ordoñez for $5 million to keep his name out of the book and to bankroll a film. Ordoñez didn't press charges, and Canseco denies that this happened. Vindicated: Big Names, Big Liars, and The Battle to Save Baseball is due out April 1, but...everyone already knows the juicy parts. [Daily News, NYT]