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

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

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete ... Robinson was drafted and served in the Army. Robinson was stationed in Fort Hood, Texas for a bit, and in 2016 the base named its softball field ...

According to Lindbergh, Brown was discharged from the Army in 1947 ... decided on a different first baseman that year: Jackie Robinson, who played all his games as a rookie at first, partly ...

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

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. He ...

Jackie Robinson is celebrated as the trailblazer ... During World War II, Robinson served in the U.S. Army, an experience that exposed him to different cultures and traditions.

LOS ANGELES -- 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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

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.

He is also an Army veteran, the president of the Black ... For Dee Sanford, the event chairperson of the Jackie Robinson Y, those obstacles make such events all the more important — reminders ...

Brown spent the 1946 season serving in the U.S. Army. He returned to the Dodgers in 1947, joining a roster that included future Hall of Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese and Robinson, whose debut that ...