Hey Cansecoites,

How are ya? The offseason sure is boring, isn't it? At least we have
football season to distract us, but it's just not the same as a Jose
Canseco home run, ya know?

I've heard rumors that Jose will be appearing at an autograph show on
December 5th in Secaucus, NJ. I don't have any more info than that right
now, but I'll pass it along if I hear anything.

Other than that, I have virtually no Jose news to share with you (see below
for an article about Jose's bats). If you need a Jose fix, head on over to
Canseconet.com for a visit. I added a new photo gallery last week full of
1999 pictures. I also added a java based sports trivia game that has a $25
weekly prize. And that's not all - I've made a LOT of additions to the
Jose Canseco checklist over the past few weeks. It now lists well over
2300 items! If you see anything missing from the list, please let me know...

Over the next few weeks/months, I hope to update the Fans Photo Gallery
(thanks to those of you who have sent me photos), and get the 2000 Jose
Canseco Home Run Contest up and running. I'm also about halfway done
reorganizing the current photo galleries. Be sure to check back often to
see what's new.

I have exactly 4 XL Canseconet.com t-shirts left. If you ordered one and
haven't mailed your payment yet, please do so. Once they're gone, they're
gone (I'll return any checks that come too late, of course).

Well, I suppose that's all I have for you. See below for a few special
offers from my sponsors and that article about Jose's bats I mentioned.

Take it easy,
Mark

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And now, for the ONLY article I've found recently that even MENTIONS Jose.....
From US News and World Report:
Will the World Series be won by a Sam Bat?
Players turn to Sam Holman's maple bats
By Marci McDonald

On a leafy Ottawa street a mile from Canada's Parliament buildings, a brick
turn-of-the-century house serves as headquarters for one of the unlikeliest
new entries on the sporting-goods scene: the Original Maple Bat Corp.
Inside the garage, amid the sawdust flying off a lathe, wooden racks cradle
what owner Sam Holman calls his "archives": 36-inch lengths of maple rounds
scribbled with the personal specs of some of Major League Baseball's
heaviest hitters.

The maple "Sam Bats" have proved such a success that Holman's chief problem
has been keeping pace with the orders. Last week, as the Atlanta Braves
fought their way to the World Series, he was working overtime to fill a
two-month-old request from the team's reserve infielder, Keith Lockhart.
But even if Lockhart or his Atlanta teammates Brian Jordan, Brian Hunter,
and Ryan Klesko never swing their Sam Bats in the games, Holman counts the
season a personal victory. "This," he says, "is the first month we've ever
made any money."

Not that Kentucky's Hillerich & Bradsby has reason to look over its
shoulder–yet. Turning out an estimated 1 million Louisville Sluggers last
year–all made of northern white ash–H&B holds 65 percent of the $15 million
wooden-bat market. Besides, wooden bats have been a loss leader for H&B
since the National Collegiate Athletic Association gave the nod to aluminum
bats 25 years ago. With profits now riding on the metal versions, as well
as H&B's line of golf clubs, company spokesman Bill Williams calls the
production of the Slugger "a service to pro baseball. It's an emotional
thing for us."

The breaks. Still, with a production run of 3,500 bats this year, Holman
has managed to create his own niche. Three years ago, he found himself
sidelined from his job as a stagehand by a broken knee. Salving his wounds
in a local pub, he paid attention when Bill MacKenzie, a baseball scout for
the Colorado Rockies, lamented over the hundreds of bats the pros broke
each week. "Sam, you're a carpenter," he said. "You should do something
about that."

Holman went straight to the public library and checked out a tome titled
The Physics of Baseball. After months of studying bat patents, including
the earliest ones for the Louisville Slugger, he had reached one
conclusion: He would have to find a wood that would take more punishment
than ash. Holman carved his first bat from a length of maple left over from
refinishing a stair rail in his home. "I knew that many of the
Stradivariuses were made of maple," he says, "and they've been around a
pretty long time."

With MacKenzie's help, Holman put the prototype in the hands of the city's
Triple A team, the Ottawa Lynx. A month later, the coach reported that
after continual use, none of his players had been able to so much as nick
the maple bat.

But it was a 1997 trip to a Toronto Blue Jays batting practice, arranged by
another friend, that put the Sam Bat into major-league play. Joe Carter, Ed
Sprague, and Carlos Delgado all took swings, and Carter hit a homer on his
first try. Later, Carter sneaked the still unsanctioned bat into a game
against the Milwaukee Brewers and once again homered, providing an instant
public-relations boost.

On the strength of Carter's endorsement, the Sam Bat was approved by Major
League Baseball in 1998. Making the rounds of spring training camps, Holman
harvested dozens of orders. "But that," he says, "is where the troubles
began."

As a one-man assembly line, Holman couldn't keep up with demand. Players
used to waiting two or three weeks for a customized Louisville Slugger
often found the wait for a Sam Bat stretching to six or eight weeks. Nor
could they be sure of getting the same uniform model in each hand-turned
batch. While ash is a common wood with a standardized density, Holman's
maple supplies were by nature varied. Still, the orders kept coming in–80
from Jose Canseco alone.

Now Holman thinks he has licked most of last season's production problems.
Improving last year's modest estimated revenue of $60,000 would be nice, he
shrugs, "but the challenge for next year is to make all the bats we're
asked to make."

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