In which year did this Cuban-American former Major League Baseball (MLB) player, who was the first one to join 40-40 club, publish a tell-all book about performance-enhancing drug usage across MLB players?
40–40 club In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 40–40 club is the group of batters who have collected 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season. Jose Canseco was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1988 after having predicted the feat in April of that year. The most recent player to reach the milestone is Alfonso Soriano, achieving the feat during the 2006 season.
Chico Fernández Humberto Fernández Pérez (March 2, 1932 – June 11, 2016), better known as Chico Fernández, was a Cuban professional baseball shortstop. He played eight seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1956 to 1963 for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, and New York Mets. In 1965 he played one season in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.