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 ...

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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.

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 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 ...

Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental events in history, died today in Hawaii, according to family and friends.