Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and the U.S. Army’s retaking ...

Robinson was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility. He died on Oct. 24, 1972. Jackie Robinson is seen playing football for UCLA in the late 30s. He would go ...

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

Brown died at age 97.... Dodgers and Dollars Meet ... Ultimately Brooklyn decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all his games as a rookie at first, partly ...

HONOLULU – 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.

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete ... Major League Baseball celebrates that groundbreaking day every April 15. Robinson died in 1972 at the age of 53, but his legacy has lived on for ...

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 ...

The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in a major league game and the last living member of the landmark 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers team that included rookie Jackie Robinson, has died.