Journalist Jim Becker has died at 98. He traveled the world as an Associated Press reporter, and covered Jackie Robinson’s ...

His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All ... He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first Black player to suit up for ...

Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental events in history, died today at age 98. STAR-ADVERTISER / 2006 Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in ...

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

A teammate later convinced Brown to attend a Dodgers tryout -- a decision that helped him land in the record books ... base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson ...

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

Eig’s book, which has been reissued this month ... “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 ...

The former baseball commissioner was noted for welcoming all who played a role in the national pastime — including former ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

LINCOLNVILLE: King spoke at this church during the civil rights movement, as did Jackie Robinson. Hundreds or ... and converted the last remaining Green Book hotel from the Jim Crow days into ...