Our World In Pictures

The now defunct but once glorious and omnipresent LIFE magazine has opened up their photo archives. You can search them through Google. And you should. But you probably won't so I rounded up some of the choicest images from New York sports teams.

YANKEES

Gehrig and DiMaggio watching batting practice in 1939

Casey Stengel during the 1958 World Series

Roger Maris during the 1960 All-Star Game

Roger Maris smoking a cigarette in the clubhouse during the 1960 All-Star Game

Mickey Mantle stretches during Spring Training in 1967

Mickey Mantle takes batting practice during Spring Training in 1967

GIANTS

Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell throwing a curve ball in 1940

Meeting on mound at Polo Grounds in 1952

Willie Mays (left) with teammates on bus in 1954

Mays ducking inside pitch against the Dodgers in 1954

Mays shaving before game of 1954 World Series in Cleveland

Giants pitchers in bullpen at Polo Grounds during September 1956 game against Dodgers

DODGERS

Dolph Camilli, Manager Leo Durocher and Lyn Larry sitting in Ebbets Field dugout during game in 1939

Dodgers manager's wife Nellie Durocher smoking a cigarette in stands at Ebbets Field

Dodgers Manager Charlie Dressen talking with Iraq's King Feisal II and Jackie Robinson

Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey in 1949

Gil Hodges in 1951

Dodgers property manager John Griffin in 1955

Jackie Robinson rounding third during Game 3 of 1955 World Series

Jackie Robinson stealing second base against Giants in September 1956

METS

Marion Mets (Minor League) roadtrip n 1967

2B Ken Boswell makes a play against the Atlanta Braves in 1969

Tom Seaver pitches to Willie Stargell in 1969

Tom Seaver in 1969

Bud Harrelson in dugout during game against Cardinals

Jets

Joe Namath on sideline in 1968

"Broadway Joe's" opened in Miami in 1969

Namath and Farrah Fawcett wearing towels in 1981

NY FOOTBALL GIANTS

Giants versus Steelers in November 1960

Lincoln Crow catching ball versus Giants

Giants versus Cardinals in November 1960

NY Giants Jim Patton, Y.A. Tittle, Del Shofner and Roosevelt Brown in 1962

KNICKS

Knicks @ Cincinnati Royals in 1959

Bill Bradley in 1968

William Baldwin with Knicks City Dancers in 1993

And on the Seventh Day, They Practiced

Images From the Knicks Open Practice
(More Words/Pictures To Come Later Today/Tonight)
It was bright and early. It was too early and far too bright. But here I was in the car cruising north on the Saw Mill Parkway headed for Pace University in Pleasantville, NY. The occasion was the annual open practice held by the Knickerbockers. The early wake-up call, though, was well worth the hour that I got to watch the team practice.

It wasn't anything extraordinary. They stretched. Ran a few drills. And then went through the motions in a bit of 5 on 5. But the 150-200 folks in that gym were right up close for all of it. We heard Jared Jeffries cracking wise about Patrick Ewing, Jr. We felt the awkwardness when Chris Duhon and not Stephon Marbury took the floor with what sure looked like the first team. We cringed with the same embarrassment that everyone on the team did each time Jerome James took a shot. And, we knew the simultaneous awe and pity inspired by Allan Houston as he did what he could when he could.