No "a," Jose

When he trotted out to right field at the top of the opening inning last Monday, talented but contentious Jose Canseco was playing for baseball's Oakland Athletics. But by the bottom of the first, the A's had traded the stunned slugger to the Texas Rangers for three players and a wad of cash. Said he: "I said to myself, 'This isn't April Fool's Day.' " It wasn't.