Barry....Busted...AGAIN!!

[FREAKgeek]

The acquisition of large muscles was feared to slow you down and make you less flexible back in thoes days. It was discouraged. Nobody juiced.

[pumpster]

Who's to say that athletes back then didn't juice?

Improbable-weights & drugs in sports were completely off the radar as recently as the 1970s & 1980s, depending on the sport. As mentioned, lifting and muscles were considered impediments-they would make you "musclebound' and "slow you down". 

A noticable change sometime around the early 70s in football and up to 10-15 years later for baseball. There would've been some evidence in the physiques, and you can see from pics they had nothing.

[Lion666]

maybe they didnt look to do it for the sport, maybe when they were younger.  you know befor they got into the sport or start of it, high school maybe.  maybe given for weight increase, you never know.

[bmacsys]

Improbable-weights & drugs in sports were completely off the radar as recently as the 1970s & 1980s, depending on the sport. As mentioned, lifting and muscles were considered impediments-they would make you "musclebound' and "slow you down". 

A noticable change sometime around the early 70s in football and up to 10-15 years later for baseball. There would've been some evidence in the physiques, and you can see from pics they had nothing.

I have yearbooks of the NY Yankees dating back from 1972. Even 1977 thru the late 80's guys were puny. The big guys like Jim Rice, Reggie, Schmidt, weighed in it around 200. The big guy was Greg Luzinski at 235. Most of the great sluggers in the game only weighed around 185 to 205 pounds up till the late 1980's.

[dukebrown]

Improbable-weights & drugs in sports were completely off the radar as recently as the 1970s & 1980s, depending on the sport. As mentioned, lifting and muscles were considered impediments-they would make you "musclebound' and "slow you down". 

A noticable change sometime around the early 70s in football and up to 10-15 years later for baseball. There would've been some evidence in the physiques, and you can see from pics they had nothing.

No.. Weight training and diets were not the same.  The exercises of yester-year were that of endurance.  They did not do plyometrics and explosive olympic lifts for all sports like today.