HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S.
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black ... t hit hard enough to force a fumble, "finally the business of stopping the Trojan score was pinned on Robinson ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking of Seoul during the Korean War, died Friday.