Baltimore Orioles, 1960
LIFE photographer Hank Walker took these shots in the Baltimore Orioles locker room. None of these photos appeared in the magazine.
A player is climbing up on a chair to adjust the TV. No remote controls in those days.
Another player is interested, as well as a guy in a suit. Players, staff, visitors and the press mingled pretty freely in the locker rooms.
Now a whole bunch of players are interested. You can barely make out the word "Senators" on the guy's chest on the TV, and the Orioles had just played the Washington Senators. Perhaps the TV show is a news broadcast about the game. Nobody seems to be in a hurry to get dressed; they're comfortable standing around naked while they watch.
In another part of the locker room, pitcher Milt Pappas (right) is talking to another player smoking a cigarette, something that was common for athletes back then but almost unthinkable now. Photographer Hank Walker may not have intended to take a frontal view of Pappas, but to be honest, you have to look pretty hard to see it.
2 comments:
Both men are smoking. Enlarge the image and you can see the cigarette almost as clearly as his circumcised micropenis (by appearance from this photographic angle).
You're right, Wild Bill. I hadn't even noticed the cigarette, maybe because I was looking for what was nearby.
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