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

Jim Becker, AP Reporter Who Covered Jackie Robinson and an Underdog Hawaii Football Team, Dies at 98 HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big ...

(AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a painting depicting Jackie Robinson’s Major League Baseball debut in 1947, at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii, May 21, ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson ... He watched Robinson become the first Black player on a Major League baseball team when editors sent ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut and ... without an appointment and was hired to start the next day. He watched Robinson ...

HONOLULU – Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball ... an underdog Hawaii high school football team that won a league championship, a tale ...

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.