More than a few former baseball stars, desolate and desperate for attention, write a tell-all book to snag the spotlight one more time before they plunge through the trap door of history.
Sometimes it works. Sometimes we even learn something. For all the ornery labels we slapped onto Jose Canseco, his book, “Juiced,” made for a fascinating read.
It served the twin functions of great entertainment and inside baseball. Indeed, Canseco proved to be a prophet of the steroid epoch, the main whistle-blower of an era that desperately needed one.
Now, Lenny Dykstra takes his turn.