For decades, Life Magazine was the official unofficial photographer of all things relating to American life. Baseball has been America's pastime for over a century. Say, did these two ever get together?

A bunch. Here's a slideshow of Life's 24 greatest baseball pictures. And if that whets your appetite, a site search for the word "baseball" brings back a lot more options. If you didn't know that Life was still around, it actually has one of the more underrated time-wasting sites on the Internet.