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

He was the last link to the Dodgers team that made baseball history when Jackie Robinson became the first ... major league player at the time of his death.

Until his death in 1972, Robinson was a prominent figure in anything he believed in. Fifty years later, baseball is finally paying tribute to a man who at one time was unwanted. Although these ...

"Jackie Robinson's impact ... As Sports Illustrated's Bill Nack wrote: "Robinson was the target of racial epithets and flying cleats, of hate letters and death threats, of pitchers throwing ...

HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball ... He died of natural causes at a Honolulu hospital, said his goddaughter Carla Escoda ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a civil rights leader. On April 15, 1947, he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball when he trotted out to first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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 causes ...