Dr. Anthony Fauci Played High School Basketball and His 1958 Team Photo is Amazing

Amid the fear and anxiety that accompany these days of COVID-19, one household name has emerged almost out of nowhere as a voice of knowledge and authority: Tony Fauci. An immunologist and the longtime head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Fauci has effectively become the face of the US medical community's response to the coronavirus outbreak as a key member of the White House's special task force.

But he wasn't always a wizened doc. In fact, way back in the 1950s, he was a point guard and team captain for his alma mater, Regis High School, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

That's a pretty serious blast from the past. You may not have known that Fauci was born in 1940, which would make this his age 80 season if he was still keeping up with the basketball thing.

You can still see the resemblance, though. Who would have thought that ball-handler in the short shorts would go on to be such a essential voice in the midst of a global pandemic?

From passing the ball to the low block to passing the mic to the POTUS. Strange times, these.