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Major League locker room
Most fans know that major league locker rooms are big. They are spacious,
carpeted, climate controlled and contain more rooms than any of us could possibly use before and after a game.
They are cleaned up for the press and always appear immaculate when tours
walk through. But in my brief experiences in team clubhouses, I have realized a number of slightly less glamourous things
about those locker rooms:
1) Player bathroom habits aren't always the greatest. In order to avoid
having to run back to the locker room, there is in many clubhouses a bucket or industrial sink-like area where players relieve
themselves during the game. This setup is typically designed so players can just head a few feet back down the tunnel.
2) Pitchers like to track their performance during the game. Many clubhouses
have semi-portable computer equipment so pitchers can monitor their performance just inside the clubhouse out of the dugout.
3) The locker room is like a player's own private room during the day.
There are few rules, and that can be surprising to visitors, especially when naked players are shaving in the team bathrooms
when, say, the video room intern shows up to get a towel.
Photos from the Cincinnati Reds locker room
Dernell Stenson jersey (Stenson was killed in the winter of 2003-04.)
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