Hot Vintage Athletes

Another shot of Lou. Crying at Yankee Stadium. This dying man cried sexy tears.

A beautiful and quintessential American moment.

Olympian Buster Crabbe was quite hot. Here he is at the 1932 Olympics.

Click image twice to ENLARGE .. lol.

Here's a pic of future actor Gordon Jones which I found in the 1933 UCLA yearbook.

Do college athletes count?

OP, how much time do you have?

John B. Kelly. Four time Olympian.

The York International Weightlifting Team - 1940.

Just look at the tall fella'!

Mickey Mantle was hot

They all look like a muscle-bound chorus line from some gay cabaret show, in R7's photo. lol

Look for team photos of prep school and college rowing (crew) teams from the late 19th through late 20th centuries. Those guys were shameless and their photos left nothing to the imagination, thank God.

Hot piece of ass Woody Strode @UCLA.

Gerald Ford, University of Michigan Football

Stanford University Crew, 1912

Former decathlete Jürgen Hingsen.

Bruce Jenner.

Great picture, R16

Don't forget me!!!

R17 didn't, R19.

World heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. Click it.

R21 Woof!

Needs more tattoos

Discus Thrower from the 1st Century.

Ted Williams was fucking gorgeous. He interrupted his baseball career twice to serve in the military --- WW2 and Korea.

Before his terminal diagnosis, Lou Gehrig also made a lackluster attempt at diversifying into film (starring in the original "Rawhide," which apparently wasn't very good). He auditioned to replace Johnny Weissmuller as Hollywood's Tarzan and even posed for publicity stills. I'm taken back (in a pleasant way) by his willingness to pose and reveal.

Another of Gehrig as Tarzan. 1936.

And a shirtless fan glossy of Gehrig. "Yours truly, Lou Gehrig."

I'm speechless.

Who's that at R13?

Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer. Won the Cy Young Award AND then spent 20 years as a Jockey underwear spokesman and model. He was gorgeous.

Those Jim Palmer ads used to make me feel all funny inside.

My Frank was hot! RIP, my love.

R29 - it says right on the picture - Ernie Langeberg.

R13 Ernie Langeberg was a Playgirl and Colt model. He wasn't a "vintage athlete."

R32 Frank Gifford in his prime was gorgeous!

I agree, R31. I didn't know a thing about baseball but those Jim Palmer ads made me twitch. He had no problem showing his package; always looked straight into the camera, directly at me.

R34. Ernie Langeberg shown in R13 is someone I'd like to meet in the showers after a the game. That's enough for me to have him included in this thread.

Would you believe Joe Manchin?

R39 I wonder why that one guy is grabbing the other's junk? Hot

Bruce Bennett aka Herman Brix aka Tarzan

Gehrig as Tarzan…the producers thought that his thighs were too big…as if that’s a bad thing…

I'm from Atlanta and so I must throw our famed golfer Mr Bobby Jones into the mix. I understand he really know how to swing his club.

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I figure if Jim Palmer (or even Jenner) can be considered vintage, then surely speedskater Eric Heiden, winner of 5 gold medals at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, can!

Eric Heiden’s thighs were one of the first things that made me realize that I wasn’t like most other boys.

[quote] Bruce Bennett aka Herman Brix aka Tarzan

aka Mr. Mildred Pierce

Lord have mercy on that Frank Gifford! Damn' R32 you did well! I had no idea about Frank Gifford like that.

Lou Gehrig was soo handsome that Gary Cooper played him in the biopic. Gary Cooper in his prime, he was just out of his pretty boy phase (he was downright beautiful in his youth) and had some wrinkles set in.

Frank bowling with Miss Burke...

Ernie Langeberg deserves to be featured again and again...

Mickey Mantle showing off his big intact cock in the locker room among a bunch of reporters in suits.

Jake Arietta - Chicago Cubs pitcher - long and intact

Rugby player Sean Lamont

Joe DiMaggio

Damn. Great pics.

R52 He's a fucking MAGA COVIDiot. So he can take his giant uncut schlong and shove it into a vat of horse tranquilizer for all I care.

Don't know what his sport is (I'm guessing weightlifting), but take away his vintage moustache and you've got a hot collegiate type.

Cute swimmer.

Ugly Joe Pepitone and his beautiful huge cock.

[quote]Discus Thrower from the 1st Century.

Eldergays: Who's had him?

US Figure skating champion Christopher Bowman (1967-2008). Too cute. Great waste of talent though…he gave in to drugs and booze.

Yum.

wow, op failed right out the gate. Your guy is average to below average as fuck.

I don't think anyone's mentioned Hot Tarzan Mike Henry (RIP), who played professional football for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Rams in the late 50s early 60s.

Yale rowing team, 1913.

U.S. Diving Team - 1932 Olympics

R63 "below average as fuck"

What is your native language? It certainly isn't English.

Swimmers.

Princeton Tigers Football Team, 1882.

Those three guys in the middle row to the right are quite hot: Messrs. Wailleigh, Riggs, and Harlan

1960 Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist, Rafer Johnson.

Pictured with his UCLA teammate, silver medalist C.K Yang of Taiwan.

Eww Gehrig looked like a young Mel Sharples.

I can’t get any of these ibb links to open.

R73 Me neither.

R72, Gehrig was cute...

More Lou

R76 What a hot daddy he was!

Lou Gehrig had classic BDF.

Can you imagine what his thighs must’ve felt like? Mmmmmmm…

I'm remembering the original Meathead on All In The Family was a big muscly football player, can't find his name right now

[quote] Eldergays: Who's had him?

Erna.

Bump bumpity bump bitches here. Nobody cares about Lou except trolls making new sock puppets.

R82 Lou is hot. Lou is a vintage athlete. You don't like it? Go make a different thread.

Hawai'ian surfer Duke Kahanamoku. He surfed naked whenever the opportunity arose. It wouldn't be the only thing that arose.

For R82

Another Duke.

Thanks r83 & r85…r82 is like stale oatmeal-no taste.

Lou had a big bat

Hank Greenberg

Hank Greenberg looked like he’d be a hot fuck.

Hank looks like he's swinging a big one.

A Lou and Hank double teaming

(gotta click on r92 to see the photo - a different one in the display for some reason)

Seriously, just look at Hank's Wikipedia article. He looks great in all of them, especially one where he's wearing a suit, and another where he's wearing shorts.

Baseball player shaking hands with naked baseball player ca. 1950.

Vulcana - weightlifter

^Oops, something went wrong. Not Chuck Grassley.

This is Vulcana:

Another Vulcana pic

Kate Roberts (1875 - 1946)

Not Vulcana, r97 and r97. That's Vulvana, a/k/a Senatrice Lindsay Graham's mother.

Vince Ferragamo

Football player Dave Kopay. OOMPH!

Buster Crabbe and a bunch of naked extras.

R99 Great-grandmaw Belle Pitty Lindzey, and two others, were early women hikers to reach the top of Ceasars Head Mountain in SC. Tough ladies.

Speaking of Hank Greenberg, been trying to find the famous photo of him standing naked in the locker room while speaking to reporters after a game but am having problems finding it online. Meanwhile, here's my contribution to the thread - Christy Mathewson, 1904.

Lou Zivkovich...

"Lou Zivkovich was a defensive end for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League."

"In this photospread, (taken during an expense paid trip to Hawaii), the muscular and hirsute Zivkovich displayed his 6'4" 216 lb. physique—46" chest and 35" waist—in a series of shots which consistently featured full-frontal nudity. There were no erections and no rear-view shots."

"

More dicks! More dicks!

Exploring this subject a little.

Trainers used to be nude in professional locker rooms as well. apparently.

That trainer could massage me any time. Bring back the bush!

Yes, Christy Mathewson, "The Gentleman Hurler!" And this photo--he looks uncannily like the Danish film director Thomas Vinterberg.

The shutter speeds used in old photography often result in blurred images that make it hard to imagine the person relatable, living person, but I find that Christy Mathewson looks totally alive and modern. Check out this one, also from 1904:

Looks like back then most guys were uncut.

[quote]Discus Thrower from the 1st Century.

Eldergays: Who's had him?

R60, I considered him but decided he was too cold and aloof.

Hank Greenburg naked?

*bursts into flames*

Yes, r111, but he was always rock hard.

[quote]Yes, [R111], but he was always rock hard.

Yes R113, he was that, for sure. And even then, when the world was young, a hard man was good to find.

R109, the best people I know in reality are blurry and quite relatable because of it.

Not an issue you have, I imagine. Fixed and pinned, right?

Greenberg

Life magazine photographers took pictures in locker rooms despite the nudity in the photos. They would crop a photo or use another one in the shoot. The nudes were never printed, but they remained in Life's archive. Apparently all the photos were recently released for public view. So Hank Greenberg here:

Holy fuck, Greenberg was an insanely beautiful man.

This was a professional English soccer player Muybridge used to demonstrate his moving picture experiments.

Quiana Welch

R120, no disrespect but that's not vintage.

We do have a few ladies in this thread but the theme is vintage soo....we're talking 80s or earlier, and most of these photos are from early 20th century.

Do the 1970s count as "vintage?" If so, this image gave my pre-adolescent loins the tingles when I first saw it in Life magazine.

John Matuszak.

We were good until R123. Yuck.

I like a good beefy John Matuszak-type.

Ah, John Matuszak. I wanted to plant my face in that ass. Rubbed out a lot to that spread.

John Matuszak is hot as fuck. Never mind the nellies.

Where did the gay rumors about Sandy Koufax start? Was he ever linked to anyone?

R128

More (young!) FRANK GIFFORD please.

Boz in the shower

I think Sandy Koufax, née Braun, has been married to at least a couple of women. The first was to the daughter of Richard Widmark.

[quote]I think Sandy Koufax, née Braun

Oh, dear. Unless you are suggesting he was born female.

No, R134, his birth name was Sanford Braun. He later took the surname Koufax from his adoptive father.

r135 Way to miss the point.

Help me understand, R136.

Please take the bitch fight elsewhere.

We only care about hot vintage cock

Isn't it sort of sly that this 2013 Washington Post article titled "Magic Johnson Opens Up About His Gay Son" shows (part owner of the LA Dodgers) Magic in an embrace with (of all people) Sandy Koufax?

John Manning

punch

Put 'em up

Actor Steve Cochran who played a lecherous boxer in "The Kid from Brooklyn."

George Chuvalo, a Canadian of Croatian descent, was a major contender for the Heavyweight Championship at one point, having fought and lost in two championship matches. His other claim to fame was never having been knocked down (never mind knocked out) in his 93 professional bouts, including the one in which he challenged Mohammed Ali for the world title.

Marcel Cerdan (1916-1949) was killed in a plane crash at age 33. In his regrettably short life, he had a very successful boxing career which included a World Middleweight title. In the meantime, he managed to join the Allied forces to fight in North Africa and dated Edith Piaf after the war.

The boxers could ALL punch me in the fartbox!!!

Robert Edward Glendenning, 1880s

pitcher

Bodybuilder and model Helmut Riedmeyer

Bodybuilder and model Helmut Riedmeyer

3. Bodybuilder and model Helmut Riedmeyer

I need Helmut's helmet head inside me quite deeply.

[quote]Help me understand, [R136].

"née" is the feminine version of the word. See also "fiancée."

The masculine version is "né."

Thanks, R153. I learned something new today.

Famed bodybuilder and exercise guru Jack LaLanne and his hot intact cock is on display (shown on the right in photo):

Helmut is breathtakingly beautiful. Damn!

A couple of grapplers

Are these guys really wrestling?

Pose

Skier

Swordsman John Winship

John Winship

2. John Winship

3. John Winship

Wrestlers by von Gloeden

Nothing like a muscular butt:

Bobby Hull

Bobby Hull's butt in briefs

Swordsman

Archery

No body fat

John Winship's pubes

Bicyclist

Ride

Equestrian with a nice ass

Cowboy

Camping: Bernard Naceri, Mr. Europe 1961

camper

Olympic viewership would soar if they made the athletes compete in the nude.

Helmut Riedmeier and his friend, Gunther, at Cannes.

Helmut Riedmeier burst upon the European bodybuilding scene in the mid-1960's, winning the Mr. Germany title twice. By the late 60's, he was full-on into being a nude photographic model, working for Barrington, AMG, Champion, Arax and others.

Helmut Riedmeier tan line

Helmut Riedmeyer perched on the hood of a Zephyr, made by the UK branch of Ford.

Swordsman Helmut Riedmeyer

No swimsuits

Vintage color

Bums

VPL

Eliot Elisofon took this photo for LIFE in 1943 at the Gafsa ancient Roman baths in North Africa.

Members of the RAAF in Darwin, Australia, 1943

LIFE photo from the 1938 series ‘Matt Mann & Michigan Swimming Team’ by William Vandivert

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Finnish Army and their diving platform

Surfer bum

Naked windsurfing. early 1970s

Claude Pedro Saba

gymnasts

Volleyball

Rings

jump

Stanford crew

Henry Armstrong was a successful boxer in the 1930's when Mydans went to work for LIFE. This locker room photo shows Armstrong being toweled off with a lot of observers.

The Washington Redskins football team allowed Carl Mydans into their locker room in 1938. It looks quite primitive compared to modern facilities but was normal for the time.

The Ritter Brothers

Barefoot tennis

Greek water polo team, 1955

showers

showers 2

runners

rings

onesie

Joe DiMaggio

Washington Redskins training camp in 1938. From the LIFE Archive.

This is "Daffy" Dean, brother of baseball player and TV commentator Dizzy Dean. LIFE Archive photo

French lawn bowling called petanque

Bum Brigade

Zeus

Classical discus

Lumberjack

Keith Stephan in Physique Pictorial.

Boxer Rocky Graziano, in a picture taken by Stanley Kubrick

American athlete at the 1936 German Olympics.

[quote] those guys were shameless

They have nothing of which to be ashamed.

I was in lust with Lou Ferrigno when he was just getting started, occasionally appearing on ABC's Wide World of Sports on Saturday afternoons. He was known for being deaf, but not for his acting skills.

Here's a VERY young Lou Ferrigno - I found it in his high school yearbook.

Would someone link to the blogspot account where these photos are found? Great pics!

BLOGSPOT SHOULD LINK TO ME!!!

R14 fine as fuck

r29 - Photo credit says R13 is a nude pic of Ernie Langeberg. I don't know who that was, but apparent it was a photo shoot for Colt in 1976. I also have no idea what that has to do with the thread.

R39 - Was that the original cast of THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB movie?

R52, R53 - God damn, trading cards sure have changed since I was a kid!

[quote] He's a fucking MAGA COVIDiot. So he can take his giant uncut schlong and shove it into a vat of horse tranquilizer for all I care.

Bitch please. Like you wouldn't drop to your knees like a sack of cement if offered a chance. Pffft.

Vintage speedskater.

Roberto Clemente was a Blatino god…as sweet natured as he was easy on the eyes…

R40 Whoa. Also fine as fuck.

R52 OMG I'm drooling. My jaw hurts just looking at him.

R52 He can beat me with that club!

Does Steve Garvey count?

He was very proud of the size of his baseball cap; you couldn't deny it was full. A guy who worked in the Dodgers locker room told me Garvey's dick and balls were impressive and he had a huge black bush. I needed to relieve myself that night...

R238 fuckable

Jeez... I meant to say "baseball cup", not "baseball cap"... Although both were full.

Garvey was hot.

Garvey was quite hot.

Hot.

There was a Garvey nude online about a decade ago. It was in the locker room while celebrating. Garvey had a massive bush in it.

R244 I remember that picture and have been trying to find it, but with no luck. Looks like somebody in Camp Garvey has had it scrubbed.

I remember him having a big bush, but not a very impressive dick.

Tom Seaver made me interested in the Mets when I was but a wee gayling...

I am sure Steve posed in his underwear at the same time the other baseball player did. I remember the pics. It is impossible to find the pics on the Internet. They used to come up in a search, but no more. I wonder if he had them all scrubbed. Too bad, I thought he was hotter than the other guy.

Garvey is top left at the link.

steve garvey, jim palmer, mike schmidt, scott erickson, russ francis, howie long, patrick kearney,mike henry, buster crabbe, etc, etc...

R248 I remember seeing this ad in magazines when I was a kid and getting stirrings in my loins.

In the larger image, you could actually see Lou Brock's pubes in his mesh undies.

Wow! NFL player Craig Morton is showing pubes in the center right photo, too. For as much as we debate the merits of bush, was it OK in the 60s and 70s to show them in ads?

If you look closely, you can see some of Jim Palmer's pubes to the left of his cock. This man made me cum more than anyone else in my "Wonder Years".

R251 This ad was actually pretty scandalous when it first ran in magazines, as I recall, because of Morton's pubes showing and the near nude undies Lou Brock was wearing.

R252 Those aren't pubes. It's just the fold of the underwear.

Enlarge the R248 photo on your computer. Those are definitely pubes.

Plus Fred Dryer and Ed Marinaro, r248...

This was a gym teacher at my high school.

Fred Dwyer had a clause in his "Hunter" TV contract which gave him permission not to wear underwear under his pants. The results were clear as day. I rubbed quite a few out while watching; it was the only reason I watched the show.

that was Dryer...

another Dryer from the show.

R260, He was such a sexy fucker. At the r248 pic, he’s the only one not wearing briefs/bikini. I think we know why.

R251 - Forget the pubes, I'm shocked at how doughy these professional athletes were back then. The 80s was the start of the muscle boy, and some of these pro sports figures look nacho-binging, beer-guzzling suburban dads.

Fred Dryer, R260, his chest is so sexy. I’d start at the top and work my way down his abs to the promised land. His eyes would roll back in his head. Bracing for an eruption.

.,.,

R263 hot guy and hot fantasy!

Sigh. Thank you for posting the vintage ad of those athletes in their underwear. The memories that brings back!!!!!!

r257, was that really your gym teacher?

There were three boy's gym teachers, r267 and he wasn't mine. He was a knuckle-dragging homophobe, so I dodged a bullet. He'd won some sort of state-level body-building title(s). There are other posing strap pics out there of him and another bodybuilder doing "artistic" poses together. I think they're from Western Athletic Guild. Here's his photo from the yearbook.

^ The other gym teacher of the three (the other one I didn't have) was the football coach. He got busted for dealing coke to his players.

I see Ed Marinaro…he gave me wood back in the day…WEHT to him? I read a blind item that turned out to be Ed on Billy Masters Filth2go. Something about extracurricular steam room activities. It’s been denied here, of all places. But he never married, did he?

He married late, R270, but he is married. And has a son.

Golfer, LadyG .

Marty Liquori, a track athlete who was one of the first high school students who ran a sub-4:00 mile, in the 60s.

College wrestler

I'm pretty sure Jim Palmer cruised me at Penn Station. Steve Garvey -- sexy but uber conservative. Mike Schmidt -- incredibly powerful body; muscle ass; enormous bulge.

Jim Palmer was rumored to be closeted back in the day. But so have several other baseball legends.

I've heard rumors from way back that Jim Palmer was at least bi.

R277 -- that would explain it. I was a twunk in those days.

My onetime friend was friends with a nationally known sports columnist who years ago told her that Palmer was bi. Maybe even gay. I don’t remember know which it was.

R273 - Marty Liquori looks like a young Bruce Campbell. Not bad a thing.

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r257's gym teacher seemed to pose a lot for WPG.

He was still a jerk, r284.

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Rocky Colavito

Gordie Howe

Bump

For Hank Greenberg fans, here's a shirtless picture that I don't think was posted earlier in the thread.

Greenberg was a very handsome man, with a trim, naturally athletic body and great hairy chest. Also, he was 6'4'.