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Saturday, March 6, 2021

Vintage Athletes - Part 4

Brooklyn Dodgers

These photos are part of a set in the LIFE magazine photo archive taken by John Dominis on May 23, 1955.  Those were the days when athletes weren't ashamed to be naked in the locker room, and they just ignored the photographers.  None of these photos were published in the magazine.

Left to right: Clem Labine, Carl Furillo, and Pee Wee Reese shaving.

A slightly different angle gives us a view of Clem Labine in the mirror.

The subject of this photo is the Dodgers' eccentric property manager John Griffin.  But we can't help noticing someone in the background.

Another shot of John Griffin in the foreground.  We're still concentrating on the background.

Likewise, the subject here is the group in the foreground, but we can't help noticing George Shuba in the background toweling dry.

George Shuba again (locker #8) and Frank Kellert (locker #12).  Players were not highly paid in those days, and facilities were primitive.  Here the lockers were just some shelves and boxes.

We close with a view of Dodgers left fielder Sandy Amoros.

3 comments:

whkattk said...

See? Nobody was struck by lightning for having been seen naked. Nobody went blind from having seen it. 😎

Xersex said...

If you masturbate, you go blind, not if you see naked men.
ahahaha

Xersex & his blog

Anonymous said...

How come George Shuba has almost no hair on his chest when he's toweling off, but at his locker #8 he has plenty of hair on his chest? I would say one of them is not George Shuba.