The connective tissue of baseball extends so far and touches to many individuals. Grant, who sang the anthem for Robinson’s ...

Jim Becker, a long-time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for the Associated Press (AP), died at age 98 in Honolulu due to natural cause ...

They were marking a milestone: Pasadena had gone a year without a single gang-related death, according to the Pasadena Police ...

COURTESY PHOTO Jim Becker at his surprise 98th birthday party last August. Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

who also displayed calm after arsonists burned his church the night Barack Obama won the presidency — has died. He was 88. In statements mourning his passing, local officials described Robinson ...

The film tells the story of the theft of the Jackie Robinson statue from local youth baseball organization League 42. The Orpheum Theatre in Wichita will be the site on Saturday of the big screen ...

Robinson died in the line of duty on Feb. 11, 1971. Robinson’s patrol car crashed while he was responding to reports of a possible burglary in progress on the far west side of Johnson County.