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

HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball ... editors sent him to the trailblazing athlete’s first game as a Brooklyn Dodger.

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson ... the trailblazing athlete’s first game as a Brooklyn Dodger. Nearly half of Robinson’s teammates ...

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

But athletes are an inspiration ... “In the fall of 1953, King watched Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn Dodgers play the New York Yankees in the World Series on a television at (minister ...

Gene Kahane writes, "It seems this month, Black History Month, is the best time to look at race and sports because, to put it ...