5 pro baseball players who have moonlighted as underwear models in the off-season
The 2022 World Series is well underway with the Houston Astros just one win away from taking home the title after winning back-to-back games on the road against the Philadelphia Phillies this week.
The two teams will face off again for Saturday night’s Game 6 at Minute Maid Park.Now, it’s a well-documented fact that baseball pants are ideal for showing off a player’s assets, but the apparel’s powers can only go so far.
And these underwear-modeling players have proven they have more than what it takes to fill out their pinstripes.In celebration of this year’s World Series, we thought we’d take a look back at how five players of past and present chose to spend some of their precious off-season time moonlighting as underwear models…While athletes ditching uniforms to cash in on briefs is commonplace today, Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer was one of the first.
In the ’70s and ’80s, he posed in a series of ads for Jockey, including this 1983 promo for the “Jeans-Brief.” It’s almost inconceivable that the product is no longer available–because when we think comfort, we think denim.The current Phillies outfielder and 2022 World Series hopeful sported these thigh-length ‘boxerjocks’ from Under Armour in 2013 when he was still playing for the Washington Nationals.
