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Flashback: When The Yankees Treated Their Dugout Like A Bar

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Was it normal for baseball players to drink beer and smoke cigarettes in the dugout? Here's a photo from LIFE magazine's archive, showing Lou Gehrig doing just that in 1936; three years later he would leave the Yankees after being diagnosed with a degenerative muscle disease that would come to be known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease." (Incidentally, it was recently linked to smoking.)

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By Jen Carlson in on June 6, 2011 11:42 AM

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  • Rfive

    How about the Pirates dropping acid and possibly smoking weed?

    http://theworldsbestever.s3.am...

  • bittinho

    Looks like the clubhouse not the dugout

  • Yep that was Baseball culture till the late 1980's.  Just look at the 86 Mets, a coke fueled, boozing, chain smoking Word Series champion.

  • vertigone

    And ironically, one of the only clean living players on that team is now fighting brain cancer.  Go get 'em, Gary Carter!

  • ktinnyc

    Not a Mets fan? Keith Hernandez smoked in the dugout when he played for the Mets.

    http://perezsolomon.com/2010/0...

  • sweetdaddychampagne

    That is one of my favorite pics of Keith...

  • jibbly

    "Nice game, pretty booooy!"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  • KevinJWalsh

    And with that kind of conditioning, he only averaged 40 hrs, 130 RBI's and hit .320 every year ....

    www.forgotten-ny.com

  • jibbly

    Well, then again, he was playing a bunch of other drunks and wheezing smokers...

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