(AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a painting depicting Jackie Robinson’s Major ...

Dodgers great Jackie Robinson was a household name before he broke the Major League Baseball color barrier in 1947. In Montreal, at least, where the fans accepted and revered him. That’s where ...

CAIRO, Ga. (WCTV) - The Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club’s “Diamond Affair” event featured former Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones as the keynote speaker. Friday’s fundraiser happened on ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, 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.

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TOMBSTONE, Ariz. (KVOA) – A Tombstone Marshal’s Office deputy was forced to fatally shoot his K9 partner after an unprovoked attack, according to the Marshal’s Office. Download PDF The ...

He then reported for camp and competed for playing time at first base alongside the legendary Jackie Robinson. Suffice to say, Robinson won the competition and successfully integrated Major League ...

HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big ... Becker, who was just 20 at the time, got quotes from Robinson in the clubhouse and ran them up to ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...