PHOTOS: Baseball’s Rookie Hazing Tradition Is Silly, Sexy Fun

Hazing usually isn’t a good thing; we’ve all heard the horror stories about fraternities and sports teams straight-up abusing people in the name of camaraderie. Thankfully, when Major League Baseball teams haze their rookies, it’s about fun dress-up.… or dress-down, as the case may be, like this year’s Cardinals:

Hahahahaha #usssss #rookieday @repostapp @cardinals

A photo posted by Carlos Martinez (@tsunamy0327) on Sep 27, 2015 at 4:23pm PDT

Of course, the Cardinals weren’t the only ones to get in the act. The Red Sox dressed their rookies up in costumes, including a sexy ref, a Grateful Dead bear and, of course, Jesus:

My favorite day of the season!!! #rookieday #redsox A photo posted by Melissa Brimhall (@volsgirl01) on Sep 27, 2015 at 6:07pm PDT

The Dodgers’ costumes were a bit more thematically linked — they’re all wrestlers:

Rookies. #BackstageDodgers

A photo posted by Los Angeles Dodgers (@dodgers) on Sep 27, 2015 at 6:32pm PDT

The Minnesota Twins also were wrestlers, but the more serious kind:

Rookie dress up day!!! ??? #Twinswrestlingteam A photo posted by Torii Hunter (@tnutts48) on Sep 27, 2015 at 4:34pm PDT

The Mets got off relatively easy… they just had to walk around in their Underoos:

.@cgrand3 was nice enough to get the rookies some comfortable men’s @underoosbrand for their trip to Philly. #Mets pic.twitter.com/Kiz1VkAYHw

— New York Mets (@Mets) September 27, 2015

The Royals showed once again that orange is the new black baseball uniform:

You know it’s Rookie Dress Up Day when… pic.twitter.com/spit6jlIvp — Royals (@Royals) September 27, 2015

And if you’re looking for hazing photos from years past, David Warren has set up a Pinterest board you might want to check out.
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