Former Cuban baseball superstarJose Canseco put up for sale hislas vegas mansion for $1.6 million dollars.
The five-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom residence occupies 5,150 square feet on about a half-acre lot, and features a pool, attached casita, waterfall and koi pond, he said.Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The former Oakland Athletics hitter's home was built in 1994 and is located in a gated community in the Green Valley North area, near Sunset Park. According to the siteRealtor.com, the building has undergone renovations worth $220,000.
In an interview with the newspaper, Canseco revealed that he is selling the property to acquire investment funds in his new company.PX40/40, a technology company to improve baseball players' hitting, along with the former American Major League baseball playerGeorge Kenneth “Ken” Griffey, Jr.
“We have Ken Griffey Jr. on board, he is the face of the company and he loves the product,” Canseco said.
The former baseball player, who will turn 60 next July, originally bought the house for $1.1 million in June 2021, according to Clark County property records.
The career ofslugger Cuban reached his peak moment with the A's, a team in which he first played for eight years, from 1985 to 1992, and to which he returned in 1997.
In their ranks he established himself as one of the best power hitters in the Major Leagues, highlighted a note from the site.Strong coffee. He won the award forRookie of the Year in 1986 and that ofMost Valuable Player in 1988; wasSix-time All-Star, wonfour-time Silver Slugger Award and the1989 World Series.
1988 marked a feat for the Cuban, when he becamethe first player in Major League history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in a season.
During his 17-year career in professional baseball, in which he played with seven franchises, he batted 266, with an OBP of 353,462 home runs, 340 doubles, 1,407 runs batted in and 200 stolen bases.
The Cuban former baseball player has also been involved inmultiple legal problems, which have led him to be arrested on more than one occasion. In 2001, after a fight between him and his twin Ozzie at a nightclub in Miami Beach, in which both of their adversaries were badly injured, both brothers were charged with two counts of aggravated assault. The Cansecos served probation and community service.
In the following years, various incidents with the law led him to be placed under house arrest for two years; one month in jail without bail for violating parole in 2003; and 12 months of unsupervised probation, after being found guilty of trying to bring a fertility drug into the US from Mexico in 2008.
In 2005, he published his bookJuiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big, in which he admitted to using anabolic steroids to enhance his gaming performance and identified several former teammates as users. The book unleashed a great scandal in the baseball world.
He has also been accused and arrested for domestic violence during his marriages, and has been involved incontroversies associated with some of his ex-partners and celebrities such as Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez.
Canseco was born in Havana on July 2, 1964. A year later, his family emigrated to the United States. He grew up and started playing baseball with his brother in Miami.
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