It takes a bold athlete to agree to bare it all for ESPN Magazine’s annual Body Issue, but after taking baseball by storm during an MVP season in 2018, Christian Yelich felt that he was ready for the task. The famous Brewers slugger, Prince Fielder, had already done it Alsoso why not Yelich?
“I’m just at a point in my life where I felt like this was something I wanted to do,” Yelich said. “I wasn’t really worried about being naked.”
On Monday evening, the first images from Yelich’s photoshoot were broadcast on ESPN, and it looks like a true tribute to his athleticism:
ESPN ‘reveals’ photos of Christian Yelich’s body issues. pic.twitter.com/qHqQW9x1hI
– Matt Hietpas (@MattyHip) August 27, 2019
This last photo of the three is my favorite. Honestly, it could be made into a work of art.
Think of a variation of the marble statue of Laocoön and his sons from Vatican City.
Yeah, there’s something to that idea, and I also don’t think Yelich needs to grow a beard like Laocoön or Charlie Blackmon. This might look more like the Prometheus sculpture at Rockefeller Center since this one looks more like a clean-shaven Yelich.
The photos that ESPN ultimately selects for its Body Issue will appear in a gallery on September 4 and on newsstands on September 6, but if baseball wants to open a separate art gallery inspired in part by Yelich’s photo shoot, we’re all for it.
