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Peterson: Jose Canseco documentary provides motivation, rationalization for PED use

Jose Canseco's baseball career was chronicled in unceasing detail, on and off the field. He has appeared at congressional hearings. He has written two books.

He was in Concord on Sunday evening for the premiere of a documentary that attempts to make sense of his baseball life and times, "The Truth Hurts."You watch and wonder: Why? What could possibly be left to tell?Canseco, 51, speaking a couple of hours before the premiere of the film, suggested the fact he was "blackballed" by baseball in his mid-30s was something of an undertold story.Therese Moncrief, a partner in Fort Worth Studios, which produced the film, thought it important to clear up misconceptions.