America's Pastime
Steroid-User Canseco Names Names
Feb. 12, 2005
"I injected them," Jose Canseco tells Mike Wallace, referring to performance-enhancing steroids he put into the bodies of some of baseball's biggest stars.
In his first interview about his controversial book on the use of such drugs in Major League Baseball, Canseco talks at length about using steroids with Mark McGwire - the first player to hit 70 homeruns in a season. The interview will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
"The first time injecting them in [McGwire's] buttocks," says Canseco with a laugh. "It wasn't like you gave it a lot of thought. It was something so common." McGwire has firmly denied using steroids.
In his book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big," Canseco writes that he and McGwire injected steroids together too many times to count. "I would often inject Mark," writes Canseco.
But in the interview, he allows he actually injected McGwire, his teammate on the Oakland Athletics, a couple times. "I injected him probably twice...I mean we would just walk in [a bathroom stall] and a lot of times [steroids] were in pill form," says Canseco. "An athlete may prepare his needle and may ask another athlete to inject him quickly and that's the way it works."
