Cincinnati Reds at Florida Training Camp
The LIFE magazine photo archive is a vast repository of over 4 million photos taken by LIFE's photographers, most of which were never used in the magazine. Professional athletes walked around naked in locker rooms, unconcerned about the photographers, because there was a gentlemen's agreement that no frontal nudity would be published. So the photographers were free to take photos of whatever they wanted, like these photos of the Cincinnati Reds in their Florida training camp, taken by LIFE photographer Bernard Hoffman in May, 1939.
A trainer examines the foot of a player who is showing us a peekaboo view, while another player towels off in the background.
Players in the shower room. Who needs privacy? We're all men here.
You wash my back and I'll wash yours.
Player Don Lang sporting a nice set of low hangers.
Lots more unashamed vintage athletes to come.
2 comments:
How far the men in this country have fallen when it comes to male nudity. Though, thankfully, we seem to be crawling back up the ladder.
So natural nudity
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