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Oakland A's outfielder Jose Canseco, whose long, high-arcing homers brought predictions he will someday challenge the records of baseball's greatest sluggers, was named the American League Rookie of the Year yesterday...
...Canseco received 16 of 28 first-place votes and 110 points to 12 first-place votes and 98 points for Joyner. Two writers from each of the league's 14 cities participated in the selection for the Baseball Writers Association of America...
...Canseco said he thought he might win but was concerned about Joyner's popularity...
...statistics overshadowed Wally Joyner's, especially in the home run category, but he was popular with the writers and his team won the pennant, which gave him an advantage," Canseco said...
...this way, he is a subtler find than fellow Phenoms Jose Canseco of Oakland and Pete Incaviglia of Texas, whose muscles show. "I didn't expect to hit 15 the whole year," Joyner admits. "I never think about hitting a home run. Sometimes I sit down, and it doesn't feel like I've ever hit one. I'm in dreamland. Because I've been playing baseball for a year straight now, I'm hard-pressed to think where everything started and stopped. But I've kept a fairly even keel, I hope, thanks to my family...