Saturday, May 21, 2016

Baseball ProGUESTus

Dollar Sign on the Glistening Muscle: Scouting Ballplayers in 1980s Playgirl
From: Baseball Prospectus
 Like any decent American institution, baseball has close connections to sex, from the early 1900s postcards that featured baseball-themed sexual instructions to the salacious sheet music to the scorching hot photograph of five sexy, shirtless shortstops in Sports Illustrated to the amazing collection of baseball erotica that you can find on Amazon and the deepest, darkest corners of the web.

But there is another forgotten relic from baseball’s sexual past. Perhaps lost amidst the frenzy of cocaine, the advent of the CD player, and the soulful tunes of After the Fire, during the early 1980s Playgirl magazine convinced a number of baseball stars to pose seductively within their pages. Many of the photos were thought to have been lost to the sands of time, that cruel mistress washing away all evidence of Steve McCatty in a bathing suit. But thanks to a little archaeological digging, today we’re able to rectify that:
 George Brett
 July 1984



 ‘Disco’ Dan Ford
July 1981




 Phil Garner
July 1984



 Rickey Henderson
July 1984


 Jerry Remy, July 1984:
  Jerry Remy
July 1984

 Steve Stone
August 1985



 


 Steve Yeager
October 1982






 


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