( CNN ) -- Former baseball slugger Jose Canseco , who accidentally shot himself in a finger on his left hand while cleaning a gun , tweeted a photo of the injured hand on Wednesday . `` Hope I can keep my finger but grateful it was n't something worse , '' he tweeted . He said his fiancee , Leila Knight , was taking good care of him , but he got no sleep . Canseco has returned to his Las Vegas home where the shooting took place . Police say Canseco was wounded while he was cleaning a handgun . Canseco , who hit more than 450 home runs during his 17 seasons in the big leagues , was hit when his semiautomatic handgun accidentally went off , Las Vegas police said . Canseco won the American League Rookie of the Year award in 1986 and was the league MVP two years later while with the Oakland A 's . He also played for the Boston Red Sox , Chicago White Sox , New York Yankees , Texas Rangers , Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays during his career from 1985 to 2001 . A controversial figure and admitted steroid user , he claimed there was widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball . He wrote two books on the subject -- `` Juiced : Wild Times , Rampant 'Roids , Smash Hits , and How Baseball Got Big '' and `` Vindicated : Big Names , Big Liars , and the Battle to Save Baseball . '' Fast facts on Jose Canseco . CNN 's Veronica George and Jill Martin contributed to this report .
Jose Canseco says he 's glad he was n't taken more seriously . His handgun accidentally went off , they say . During his long career , he hit more than 200 home runs . He is a central figure in baseball 's drug controversy .