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Funny, DeNiro looks nothing like a professional athlete here.


Yet he was so believable in Raging Bull and looks great in his old age.

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He looks as much like an athlete and catcher as Yogi Berra did.

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kevin-bergin says > Yet he was so believable in Raging Bull and looks great in his old age.
I didn't think any of the guys on the team looked particularly athletic; at least not by today's standards. In those days they were part-time ball players who had to subsidize their income doing other jobs. As a rule they didn't devote nearly as much time and energy to their overall fitness and physique the way most of today's athletes do.


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I agree. He was way too undersized to be a major league ball player.

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