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

Here's what they had to say (quotes will be what they told ... I think that what Jackie Robinson did for baseball is what J. Leonard Hamilton did for college basketball. He went to Kentucky ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and ... who was just 20 at the time, got quotes from Robinson in the clubhouse ...

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. He was 98. He died of natural ...

First, he was announced as an inductee into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as part ... and Edgar Martinez (No. 11), along with Jackie Robinson (No. 42) as the only players to have their ...

Dating back to the first Baseball Hall of Fame class in 1936 ... reportedly due to his refusal to sign Black players, including Jackie Robinson, who had a workout for Boston in 1945. … the writers ...

Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball’s color barrier, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers Montreal ...

On this day in 1919, baseball and civil rights icon Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. Best known for breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers ...