Former baseball superstar slugger Jose Canseco will fall hard.

In a sense, he already has.

Jose Canseco in training (Photo by AP)

Canseco, who’s now as well known for the book that blew the lid off baseball’s dirty little steroid secrets as for his towering homers, is scheduled to get in the boxing ring for a three-round bout June 27 in Fort Lauderdale.

In a tabloid twist, some of the proceeds of the evening of boxing will go to the John Graziano Foundation, a foundation for a Tampa man seriously injured in a 2007 accident with wrestler Hulk Hogan’s son.

No venue’s been picked yet, but chances are Canseco’ll fight someone off the street.

Well, this being Florida, it’s someone off the mall!

Promoters will be accepting $50 applications to fight Canseco at the Dadeland Mall near Miami noon at 4 p.m. Saturday.

Hear that, Mark McGwire? No need to remind you that Canseco wrote he injected you personally with ‘roids! (Read more…)