On This Day
It was June 29, 2006 that infamous major league slugger Jose Canseco was signed into the GBL by the San Diego Surf Dawgs. Canseco played just that one game with San Diego -- he went 0 for 3 and was hit by a pitch -- before he was traded to the Long Beach Armada after requesting to play in a GBL market closer to his home in the Los Angeles area.
Often forgotten was that the GBL didn't mark Canseco's foray into independent league baseball. He played 41 games for the Newark Bears in 2001 before the Chicago White Sox nabbed his minor league contract that season.
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