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Jackie Robinson: American Icon
When Jack Roosevelt Robinson stepped onto Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field on April 15, 1947, he not only changed the face of professional baseball in America. In ways subtle and profound — ways that have been...
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Babe Ruth: Rare Photos
Baseball Renders Tardy Tribute to a Great Man Now Old and Sick — Headline from the May 12, 1947, issue of LIFE magazine In April 1947, the most famous and, arguably, most beloved ballplayer of all-time...
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LIFE With Hank Aaron: A Legend Looks Back
Over the course of a 23-season career filled with milestones that other ballplayers only dream about, Hank Aaron retired as a first-ballot Hall of Famer and, most famously, as the all-time major-league...
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LIFE With the Yankees: Rare Photos From Spring Training, 1961
In 1961, during spring training in Florida, LIFE gave 25-year-old Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek a camera and asked him to photograph his teammates: Mantle, Berra, Maris, Ford, and the rest of the players...
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LIFE’s Best Baseball Pictures
LIFE magazine’s coverage of the American pastime — while always steeped in a genuine appreciation for the nuances, intricacies and thrills of the game — was often as much personality-driven as...
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Twilight of the Idol: A Portrait of Mickey Mantle in Decline
The greater the athlete, the tougher it is to leave the arena. History is filled with examples of players, in pretty much every sport, who should have hung up their spikes, or their skates, or their...
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LIFE in the Locker Room: Pro Baseball
Maybe it’s just our imagination, but photographers working years ago seemed to take better, more intimate (i.e., more casual, not so perpetually, consciously posed) pictures of ballplayers in their...
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27 Up, 27 Down: Remembering Don Larsen’s Perfect Game, October 1956
In the long, long history of professional baseball, across tens of thousands of games, there have been fewer than 300 no-hitters. Perfect games, in which no batter even reaches first base, are even...
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Yogi Berra: A Baseball Legend Pays Tribute to Teammates and Rivals
A while ago, LIFE.com asked Hall of Famer and Yankee legend Yogi Berra to flip through some old photos and share a few of his fondest baseball memories. Our first question: Looking back, what was the...
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LIFE With Joe DiMaggio: Early Photos of a Baseball Phenom
Writing about Joe DiMaggio’s career on the diamond is a bit like writing about a great work of art: every time you touch on an especially memorable aspect, two or three more present themselves as...
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