Infield Insanity: Preakness debauchery through the years
The scene in the Preakness Infield may have evolved over the years but it still remains “The People’s Party.”
ALSO SEE: PreaknessPictures.com – Sun photo galleries from past Preakness Days.
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- Infield spectators dance at Pimlico Race Course on Preakness Day Saturday, May. 18, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun)
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- Contestants pose on a golf cart during the annual bikini contest at Pimlico Race Course on Preakness Day Saturday, May. 18, 2013. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun)
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- Dylan McLaughlin, of Baltimore, came to the Infield at the 138th Preakness dressed as a gorilla. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun)
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- Rebecca Skipp gives a “unicorn” a drink of beer in the infield at the 138th running of The Preakness at Pimlico. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)
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- Bikini contest contestants line up in the infield at the 2011 Preakness. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)
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- Kim Moore of Annapolis gets cheers from the crowd in the infield after she his a wiffleball after drinking from, and doing circles around the bat in 2011.
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- Spectators in the infield take a break from partying to cheer for the horses in the backstretch during the 136th Preakness Stakes in 2011. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
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- Beauty contestant Trisha Benton of Baltimore poses during the 135th Preakness festivities at Pimlico Race Course in 2010. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun)
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- A race goer is escorted out of the infield by security personnel after a fight during the ZZ Top concert in 2009. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)
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- Thomas Clark of Lanok Harbor, N.J., dances for a crowd in the infield in 2011. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)
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- The infield crowd gathers as the Zac Brown Band performs prior to the 2010 Preakness Stakes. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
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- With a new ban on brining in outside alcohol, the infield crowd is sparse 30 minutes before the running 2009 Preakness. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
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- A bikini contest contestant walks across the infield stage during the 2009 Preakness. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)
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- Contestants line up for the bikini contest in the infield at the 2009 Preakness. (Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun)
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- The running of the urinals continued in 2008 even though they were spaced apart in the infield. A port-a-john runner tries to make a leap from one row to another — and fails as he falls short. (Christopher T. Assaf/Baltimore Sun)
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- The running of the urinals continued in 2008 even though they were spaced apart in the infield. A port-a-john runner tries to make a leap from one row to another — and fails as he falls short. (Christopher T. Assaf/Baltimore Sun)
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- A Preakness infield spectator runs on the top of a line of port-a-johns while people hurl cans and bottles of beer at him in 2007. (Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun)
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- To the cheers of those surrounding her, a young woman bares herself to the crowded infield of Pimlico in 2007. (Christopher T. Assaf/Baltimore Sun)
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- Alyssa Molnar, Cincinnati, Ohio, takes a swig of “boxed” wine in the 2007 Preakness infield. (Christopher T. Assaf/Baltimore Sun)
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- A pole climber gets cans tosses at him from everywhere in the infield during the 131st running of the Preakness Stakes in 2006. (Glenn Fawcett/Baltimore Sun)
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- A woman heads down a slip ‘n slide and is doused with beer to earn a free drink in the infield in 2006. (John Makely/Baltimore Sun)
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- A Preakness goer dives into the infield mud during the 2005 race. (Glenn Fawcett/Baltimore Sun)
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- People attending the 2005 Preakness Stakes had to traverse muddy conditions in the infield in order to use the facilities. (Gene Sweeney/Baltimore Sun)
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- R.J. Turnbull of Westchester, N.Y. and Nicole Schulz of Long Island, N.Y. share an intimate moment near the port-a-johns in the infield in 2006. (Glenn Fawcett/Baltimore Sun)
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- Security personnel escort out an unruly infield patron in 2004. (Christopher T. Assaf/Baltimore Sun)
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- Medical personnel evacuate someone from the infield during the 2006 Preakness. (David Hobby/Baltimore Sun)
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- Mike DeCarlo of Phildelphia, carries a horse beer bong into the infield in 2004. (Christopher T. Assaf/Baltimore Sun)
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- Bill Taylor of Brooklyn Park decided purple would be his color for the 129th Preakness in 2004. (Christopher T. Assaf/Baltimore Sun)
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- A nineteen-year-old woman flashes for the infield crowd at Pimlico during the 2000 Preakness. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
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- Photo illustration from the 2000 Preakness Stakes. Click image to magnify. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)
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- Carroll County youths sleep in the Preakness infield having arrived when the gates opened at 8 AM for the 1993 race. (Gene Sweeney/Baltimore Sun)
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- Race goers carry old sofa loaded with drinks and food as gates to the infield open at the Pimlico Race Track for the 1986 Preakness Stakes. (George Cook/Baltimore Sun)
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- Eric Waterman dances in the infield at the 1986 Preakness Stakes. (Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)
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- Roderick “Flounder” McGibbon of Washington, DC, tries a Black Eyed Susan in the infield during the 1985 Preakness. (Barbara Haddock/Baltimore Sun)
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- Dennis Posey cheers, beer in hand, during the 1985 Preakness. (Baltimore Sun)
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- Mike Murphy enjoys the infield scenery from atop a ladder, not missing much with his field glasses before running of the 1982 Preakness. (Weyman Swagger/Baltimore Sun)
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- Steve Semmonts prepares to get up after having his chest painted by Diana Ross in the infield at the 1981 Preakness. (Richard Childress/Baltimore Sun)
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- Preakness Infield 1980 (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)
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- Preakness goers enter the infield with coolers and supplies before the 1980 race. (Clarence Garrett/Baltimore Sun)
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- Preakness Infield 1980 (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun)
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- Preakness goers enter the infield with supplies before the 1975 race. (George Cook/Baltimore Sun)
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- Preakness infield 1975 (Joseph A. DiPaola Jr./Baltimore Sun)
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- Preakness Infield 1974 (Lou Bush/Baltimore Sun)
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- Preakness infield crowd in 1967. (Ralph L. Robinson/Baltimore Sun)
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- Preakness infield 1966. (Ralph L. Robinson/Baltimore Sun)
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