| | | Hey kids! It's a small world after all! Look how easy it is to connect two people born on the same day with similar genetics, yet have had completely different career results -- Jose Canseco and Ozzie Canseco!
Six Degrees of Separation
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Unable to hook on with a major league team, Jose Canseco began this season playing for the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League before signing with the White Sox last week. |
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Back in his MVP days when he was the game's highest-paid player, Canseco briefly dated Madonna. Of course, he wasn't alone. During the 1994 strike, David Letterman joked that one of the players' demands was that owners, "put an on-deck circle in Madonna's bed." |
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The Material Girl had a supporting role in "A League of Their Own," the excellent 1992 film in which Tom Hanks famously explained to a player, "There is no crying in baseball! Rogers Hornsby was my manager and he called me a walking pile of pig---- and that's when my parents came up from Michigan to see me play, but did I cry? No! No! And you know why? Because there's no crying in baseball!" |
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"A League of Their Own" was based on the All-American Girl's Professional Baseball League of the World War II era. In the movie, Lori Petty portrayed the ace pitcher for the Rockford Peaches, a real AAGPBL team. A far different role than she had in the uncomfortably bad film, "Tank Girl."
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Nearly 50 years after the final AAGPBL game, Ila Borders followed in the footsteps of Petty's character by becoming the first female pitcher in minor-league history when she took the mound for the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League. |
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After the Saints traded her to the Duluth-Superior Dukes, Borders was teammates with Ozzie Canseco. Ozzie is Jose's identical twin brother and the two played together in Newark this season. After Jose signed with the White Sox, Ozzie asked for a trade and Newark placed him on the inactive list. He was hitting .207. |
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