The Dark Side of the Diamond

The Bash Brother Who Told on Everyone - José Canseco

I own one of the bats José Canseco and Mark McGwire posed with on the cover of Sports Illustrated. That shot is burned into my brain. Two Bash Brothers, grinning like they owned the fucking game. And they kind of did. Back then, nobody cared that they looked like they were built in a lab. It was the 80s. Big was better. Oakland was selling power, and ML…