Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98
Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking ...
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Jackie Robinson: Before the Dodgers, a 4-sport star at UCLA
Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... California in 1920. After high school, Robinson enrolled at Pasadena Junior College — now Pasadena City College — and was a four-sport ...
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In Jackie Robinson's GA hometown, Chipper honors 'trailblazer of epic proportion'
A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...
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Jackie Robinson's football career at UCLA hinted at greatness to come
which led UCLA 14-7 before Robinson intercepted a Stanford pass and returned it 49 yards to set up the game-tying touchdown. "Jackie swiped the ball on his own 30 and high tailed it up the pasture ...
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Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98
But he said his most important story was about an underdog Hawaii high school football team that ... was hired to start the next day. He watched Robinson become the first Black player on a Major ...
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Jim Becker, AP reporter who covered Jackie Robinson and an underdog Hawaii football team, dies at 98
HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league ... story was about an underdog Hawaii high school football team that won a league championship ...