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

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

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.

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 at age 98. STAR-ADVERTISER / 2006 Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous monumental ...