Jim Becker, a long time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for ...

HONOLULU — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army ...

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

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 ... coach Ray Richards told the Santa Cruz Evening News in the preseason. Soon, UCLA's offense was based around ...

The student newspaper for rival Stanford called him “Lightning Jackie Robinson” and he was known for big plays. According to the New York Times, he returned a punt 64 yards in an Oct. 7 ...

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

Jim Becker, AP Reporter Who Covered Jackie Robinson and an Underdog Hawaii ... which covered the world's major news stories from a feature perspective. In 1950, his editor sent him to Korea ...

He watched Robinson become the first Black player on ... which covered the world's major news stories from a feature perspective. In 1950, his editor sent him to Korea, where the U.S. and its ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league ... which covered the world’s major news stories from a feature perspective.